People v. Cross

The primary issue raised in these three consolidated cases is whether the appellate court properly held that entrapment exists as a matter of law whenever a government informer supplies a controlled substance to an individual who is later prosecuted for the sale of that substance. Defendant Odie Cross, Jr., was convicted in a jury trial of the unlawful delivery of less than 30 grams of a substance containing heroin (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 56½, par. 1401(b)) and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of two to six years, defendant Tom Haywood was convicted in a bench trial of the unlawful…