UNITED STATES v. CHISUM

Crim. No. 5079-CD.

312 F.Supp. 1307 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Burette CHISUM, Defendant.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

April 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Robert L. Brosio, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Criminal Division, Thomas E. Kotoske, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Carl E. Stewart, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.


FERGUSON, District Judge.

This is a case of first impression in federal courts involving the issue of entrapment when the government supplies counterfeit money to a person and then arrests him for receiving it.

The defendant is charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 473, the indictment stating that on October 30, 1969, he knowingly received 500 counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes, with intent to pass them as genuine...

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