Jones v. State

Roderick Delano Jones (“Appellant”) appeals his conviction and sentence for drug trafficking, asserting the trial court reversibly erred by allowing the State to rebut his claim of entrapment with evidence of a prior criminal act that, like the charged offense, resulted from law enforcement inducement. He argues the State may only establish his predisposition to commit the charged offense with evidence of criminal conduct prior to the inducement. “Post-inducement” criminal conduct, he contends, is irrelevant to the issue of predisposition, and therefore inadmissible. We disagree, and affirm.

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