People v. Stanley

A jury found defendant guilty of delivery of heroin, MCLA 335.341(3)(a); MSA 18.1070(41)(3)(a). He received a 3-1/2 to 20 year sentence, and appeals of right.

Defendant admitted at trial that he delivered heroin to Richard Upton on March 13, 1974. His defense was entrapment, based upon his allegations that the drugs sold to Upton, a drug addict turned state police informant, had been purchased from Upton about two weeks earlier, and that Upton and Noreen Earhart, a state police detective, feigned withdrawal sickness to bring about the sale. The trial court, without stating whether it believed…