Legal Opinion

State v. Preston

Court of Appeals of Arizona

Decided March 14, 2000No. 2 CA-CR 98-0524PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

FLÓREZ, Judge.

¶ 1 Appellant Sean Edward Preston was charged with four counts of sale of methamphetamine to an undercover Tucson police officer. A jury returned verdict forms on which they had written the word “guilty” in the blank space for each of the four counts. The trial court sentenced appellant to concurrent, three-year prison terms on three of the counts and a seven-year term of probation on the other. He appeals, raising several related challenges to the constitutionality of Arizona’s entrapment statute, A.R.S. § 13-206.

¶ 2 At his trial, Preston raised the defense of…

2Cases cited38 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  4. Neder v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  5. Sullivan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1993

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. State v. CaseyArizona Supreme Court · 2003
  2. State v. FarleyCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 2001
  3. State v. SeyrafiCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 2001
  4. State of Arizona v. Craig A. WilliamsonCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 2015
  5. State v. JeffreyCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 2002

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