Sherman v. United States

Regretfully I noté my dissent. I think there was serious and basic error in the refusal of the trial judge to submit the question of entrapment to the jury. To sanction that refusal would be to depart from the rule announced by our highest court in a number of recent cases; to depart also from the rule of public policy clearly announced in the federal courts and specifically to ignore the admonition of the United States Court of Appeals for this District “that courts are required to keep hands off the jury’s business.” Christie v. Callahan, 75 U.S.App.D.C. 133, 148, 124 F.2d 825, 840.

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