Legal Opinion
Robert A. Prather v. John Rees, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1987No. 85-6124PublishedCited by 382 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner appeals the district court’s judgment denying him habeas corpus relief. A jury convicted Prather of attempted armed robbery. He now contends that the Kentucky trial court denied him a fair trial because: (1) the judge refused to instruct the jury on the lesser-included offense of attempted second-degree robbery; and (2) the judge refused to instruct the jury on the defense of entrapment. We affirm.
Prather got in touch with John Henon, who happened to be a paid police informant, and asked Henon if he wished to help Prather rob a van which would be carrying about…
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