Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas Floyd Osborne, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1991No. 90-5691PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, Chief Judge:
This appeal arises out of alleged government entrapment in connection with a child pornography sting operation. We are presented with the question of whether the district court may properly rule prior to trial that no entrapment existed as a matter of law, thus preventing the defendant from presenting evidence at trial on the defense of entrapment. We hold that, although pretrial resolution of an entrapment motion is rarely appropriate, on the facts of this case the district court did not err in refusing to allow the issue of entrapment to go before the jury. Accordingly,…
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