State v. Gibbons

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

HANDLER, Justice.

Defendant, Paul Gibbons, was tried before a jury on two counts each of possession, possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of methamphetamine. Defendant raised the affirmative defense of entrapment. The jury rejected the defense, returning a verdict of guilty on all six counts.

In its charge to the jury, the trial court instructed the jury that in assessing defendant’s entrapment defense, defendant’s two prior convictions for receiving stolen property and single previous conviction for larceny and breaking and entering…