Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Gus Goody, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-02-07
Citations: 291 A.D.2d 237
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gus Goody, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 291
Pages: 237–237

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gus Goody, Appellant.
[736 NYS2d 876]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered August 27, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
Read as a whole, the court's charge on accessorial liability, which included the definition set forth in Penal Law § 20.00, conveyed the appropriate standard. In context, the court's emphasis on the phrase "intentional participation" could not have distracted the jury from the statutory definition (see, People v Johnson, 181 AD2d 509, 510, lv denied 80 NY2d 833). Concur — Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Sullivan, Wallach and Marlow, JJ.