Ordonez v. State

I concur fully that the first enumeration of error is without merit, for the requested instruction was not a correct statement of the law and was properly rejected by the trial court.

I concur in the ruling on the second enumeration because that is the prevailing law at the present time. However, when a jury asks for a clarification of the law, it ought to be given. A jury hears the charge only once. It is comprised of a whole series of interconnected legal principles, some of which are totally unfamiliar to the lay jurors. The law of entrapment is a difficult area, as evidenced by the…