United States v. Thomas Abbadessa

CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.

Appellant was convicted after jury trial of knowingly and intentionally distributing approximately five pounds of marihuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). His appeal is based on contentions that the trial court should have held as a matter of law that he was entrapped, that certain evidentiary rulings were in error and that a jury instruction was prejudicially erroneous and repetitious. The case presents the seemingly incongruous situation of a probationer’s being opportuned by a federal agent to violate the narcotics laws even though his probation…