Fidalgo v. State

HUBBART, Judge.

The central question presented for review is: when (1) an undercover police officer is properly admitted to the defendant’s house under a ruse without a warrant and without announcing his authority and purpose; (2) the defendant thereafter commits a felony in the officer’s presence by offering, in effect, to sell a kilogram of cocaine to the officer in the house; (3) the officer informs the defendant that he is going to a car outside the house to obtain the money to buy the cocaine with the implied understanding that he will return to consummate the sale; (4) the undercover…