United States v. Randolph Louis Tate and Ronald Steve Delgado

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This is an entrapment case.

In the pretrial order entrapment was noted as the sole defense. In its opening statement the government attempted to discuss the anticipated defense of entrapment. The court would not permit discussion but itself noted that the defense was anticipated. After the government rested its direct case, the defendants moved, pursuant to Roviaro v. U. S., 353 U.S. 53, 77 S.Ct. 623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957), and U. S. v. Gomez-Rojas, 507 F.2d 1213 (CA5, 1975), to have the identity of the informer revealed and to have him produced so that they could put him…