Legal Opinion
United States v. M.K. Fadel
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 22, 1988No. 87-2105PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, District Judge.
I
On March 25, 1987, a federal grand jury sitting in Salt Lake City, Utah returned a three count indictment charging defendant M.K. Fadel with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and two counts of distributing cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
On May 1, 1987 Fadel filed a motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds of outrageous governmental misconduct and entrapment allegedly arising out of the government's undercover investigation of the case. Prior to the trial of the case, the district court ruled that…
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