STATE v. MATHESON


363 A.2d 716 (1976)

STATE of Maine v. Tom MATHESON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

September 2, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Cox, Dist. Atty., Eugene W. Beaulieu, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bangor, for plaintiff.

Jerome B. Goldsmith, Bangor, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.


POMEROY, Justice.

With the marked increase in the number of prosecutions had for alleged violations of various "drug" statutes, the "entrapment" issue is being raised with increasing frequency. Occasion for the raising of this issue results naturally from the fact that the technique most commonly employed in the detection of violations of these statutes is the use of undercover agents of the State and purchases by such agents of drugs from the person thereafter indicted...

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