State v. Hansen

HUNTLEY, Justice.

The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the jury was adequately and properly instructed on the law of entrapment under the circumstances of this case.

Initially there were two instructions on the law of entrapment. The jury deliberated four and one-half hours, and then requested and was given a third instruction further explaining the law of entrapment. Eleven minutes later the jury returned a guilty verdict.

The three instructions, considered together, correctly stated the law of entrapment.1 Counsel for appellant urges that we speculate that the jury ignored the first…