Holiday v. State

The issue raised in this appeal is whether the trial court erred fundamentally by giving the jury the standard instruction on entrapment in effect in 1997, when this offense and appellant’s trial took place. The standard instruction was changed effective July, 1998, and is now consistent with the supreme court’s analysis of the entrapment defense found in Munoz v. State, 629 So.2d 90 (Fla. 1993). See Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases, 723 So.2d 123 (Fla. 1998). See also Vazquez v. State, 700 So.2d 5 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), appeal dismissed, 718 So.2d 755 (Fla.1998). It is undisputed…