Legal Opinion
Joe Bruno v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1958No. 15992PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
Bruno appeals from the verdict in a jury trial case convicting him of four unlawful sales and facilitating the sales of narcotics in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 for which he was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently. He contends (a) that the Court erroneously refused certain instructions; (b) that the statutory presumption of knowledge of importation by possessing narcotics is not valid in the case; and (c) that he was entrapped into making the sales by the Government’s agents.
The facts are not in dispute. On four separate occasions…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Sorrells v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Sherman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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- Brasfield v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- United States v. Russell PruittCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1974
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