TZIMOPOULOS v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1032.

554 F.2d 1216 (1977)

Nicholas TZIMOPOULOS, Defendant, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin S. Louison, Taunton, Mass., for appellant.

Paul F. Healy, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and MILLER, Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant challenges on several grounds his conviction by a jury on a one-count indictment charging that he offered a bribe to a public official in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201. We affirm.

Appellant argues that his criminal conduct was "the product of the creative activity of government agents thereby establishing entrapment as a matter of law," and that, in any case, the trial judge erred in refusing to give a requested instruction on entrapment...

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