Legal Opinion

Young v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 23, 1992No. CR 91-219PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Donald L. Corbin, Justice.

Appellant, Vaugn Young, appeals his conviction of delivery of cocaine. He was found guilty by a Jackson County jury and sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. As his sole point for reversal, appellant contends the trial court erred in prohibiting testimony that an undercover drug task force agent brought cocaine to appellant’s home and smoked it there. Appellant attempted to offer the testimony as evidence of his defense of entrapment; the trial judge prohibited the testimony as impeachment of the agent’s testimony on a collateral matter.…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Sorrells v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  2. Mathews v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. Spears v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
  4. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1970
  5. Fight v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1973

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Pyle v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2000
  2. Weaver v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1999
  3. Commonwealth v. TraceyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  4. Smoak v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2011
  5. Montgomery v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2006

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