Dravo v. State

Thomas Nicholas Dravo, the appellant, was convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. He was tried in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, before Judge Raymond G. Thieme, sitting without a jury, and was sentenced to serve five years in prison. The appellant’s sole defense was that he had been entrapped by a police informer.

The appellant contends the trial court erred in failing to find entrapment as a matter of law and secondly that the so-called "objective” test for entrapment should supersede the "subjective” or "origin of interest” test currently used in Maryland.

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