People v. Castro

Opinion

KELLY, J.*

Defendant, charged in a grand jury indictment with violating Health and Safety Code section 11352 (transporting, selling and furnishing, or giving away heroin), was convicted by a jury as charged and sentenced to state prison. He now appeals.

Statement of Facts

The case involves a heroin purchase on February 16, 1977, between the defendant and a paid undercover police informer, Steven Ramey. The defense was entrapment.

Ramey, a convicted felon (who spent some twenty years in prison for three felony convictions—burglary in 1956 and 1964 and escape in 1970) began working as a paid…