State v. Fort

HALL, Justice:

Appeal from conviction of the felony offense of distribution of a controlled substance for value. 1

The prosecution of this case was the result of a “controlled buy” of heroin staged by police officers who furnished funds to an informant kept under surveillance. When the informant emerged from the premises he related having purchased heroin from a person called “Otis” and having been promptly forced by him to “shoot up” his heroin purchase before leaving. He was observed to have constricted pupils and blood oozing from a needle mark in his arm. He had no money. Thereafter, one of…