Adam v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

At his trial for trafficking in a controlled substance, appellant Ramon Dinkha Adam sought a jury instruction on the procuring agent defense, which generally provides that if a defendant is an agent of the purchaser, then the defendant should only be held as culpable as the purchaser. The district court rejected the instruction, even though there was some evidence, and Nevada caselaw, that supported giving the instruction. In this appeal, we revisit that prior precedent holding that the procuring agent defense is applicable to a charge of trafficking in a…