Legal Opinion
Roberts v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided September 28, 1994No. 23217PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Appellant James David Roberts was convicted after jury trial of three counts of sale of a controlled substance and one count of trafficking a controlled substance. The state introduced evidence that Roberts sold cocaine on four occasions to an undercover police officer who had been introduced to Roberts through a confidential informant (Cl). Roberts claimed entrapment, alleging that the Cl pressured him, by fabricating an elaborate story, into selling cocaine when he had no predisposition to do so.
Roberts moved for a pretrial order compelling the state to disclose the identity of the…
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