People v. Chanath

Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. He appeals, arguing that the State failed to establish that his involvement in the offense was not the result of entrapment and that the trial court erred in' admitting into evidence the opinion testimony of Chicago police officer William Haley.

At trial, Haley testified that he was working as an undercover agent on February 13, 1986, when he first met defendant at the apartment of Denise Murray, defendant’s girl friend. Haley had received information from an…