People v. Ramirez

Opinion

KAUS, P. J.

Defendant Raymond M. Ramirez was convicted, after a jury trial, of two counts of selling heroin. (Former Health & Saf. Code, § 11501.) He was sentenced to concurrent prison terms.

Facts

The only defense was entrapment. The facts are stated accordingly:

Claire Cain, defendant’s friend, was a heroin user, who bought “from the man next up the ladder . . . and tries to sell it to support his habit . . . .” Cain’s wife, Mary, was also an addict. Sometime before August 1972 Cain was arrested and charged with seven counts of selling heroin, based on seven separate sales totalling…