State v. Lee

BRODY, Justice.

Defendant Ronald James Lee appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Perkins, J.) entered after a jury found him guilty of trafficking in cocaine in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1103 (1983). The evidence at trial generated the issue of Lee’s entrapment by a paid informer for the Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement (BIDE), and the court properly instructed the jury that the prosecution had the burden to prove the absence of entrapment beyond a reasonable doubt. Lee now argues that the evidence was insufficient to enable the jury to find beyond a…