State v. Gardner

NEHRING, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

T1 Randy Shea Gardner attempted to smuggle illegal drugs into the prison facility where he was an inmate. He was convicted of distributing, offering, agreeing, consenting, or arranging to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to serve a one-to-fifteen-year prison term, to begin after the prison term he was then serving expired. He challenges that conviction in this appeal. He claims that he was not guilty of the crime because a police informant and an undercover police officer entrapped him.

12 After he was sentenced, Mr. Gardner appealed. He sought summary…