LANGLEY, District Judge.
The appellant, John Jacob Padilla, defendant below, was convicted by a jury of selling heroin knowing it to have been brought into the United States contrary to law, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174. On appeal, he contends the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict: that it requires finding as a matter of law that he was entrapped, that he acted in the sale of the narcotics as agent of the government, and that his possession...
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