State v. Rivers

GLASSMAN, Justice.

Frederick 0. Rivers appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Fritzsche, J.) on a jury verdict convicting him of solicitation to commit murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 153 (1983). 1 We agree with Rivers that the court erred in its instruction to the jury that the elements of the offense of solicitation need not occur simultaneously in the mind of the defendant and in its denial of Rivers’ requested instruction on entrapment. 2 Accordingly, we vacate the judgment.

The record reveals the following: At the time of his arrest on March 25, 1992, Rivers was…