UNITED STATES v. GROOB

No. 344, Docket 71-1695.

451 F.2d 1210 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Philip GROOB, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Putzel, III, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Jan Stanley Horowitz, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Bruno Schachner, New York City (Herbert Berman, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Before LUMBARD, HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this appeal from a conviction for bribing and for conspiring to bribe an Internal Revenue agent, appellant claims that the trial judge's charge to the jury on the issue of entrapment was erroneous, and that the conduct of the government agents in this instance was so unconscionable as to constitute entrapment as a matter of law. We find both these contentions without merit, and affirm the conviction.

The trial judge charged that the defense...

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