State v. Sprague

HALL, Chief Justice:

Defendant appeals his conviction of distribution of a controlled substance (marijuana) for value, 1 contending that he was entrapped and that the trial court erred in receiving certain evidence. We reverse.

On August 19, 1982, around 10:00 p.m., defendant and a friend were sitting in a park-like area across from the Manti Temple, conversing. Undercover agents James Tauffer and Ed Spann saw the two and approached them to make a contact. Defendant and his friend were neither using controlled substances nor talking about them. Further, Tauffer had not seen either person before…