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BRUCE v. STATE

No. 2114.

612 P.2d 1012 (1980)

David BRUCE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Rothschild, Asst. Public Defender, Anchorage, and Richard G. Lindsley, Asst. Public Defender, Juneau, Walter Share, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian C. Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Michael J. Stark, Asst. Dist. Atty., Juneau, Larry R. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Patrick J. Gullufsen, Dist. Atty., and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the defendant established police entrapment by a preponderance of the evidence.

David Bruce was a mechanic at a Juneau service station. He was a heavy user of cocaine. Towards the end of February, 1978, he began to feel tired and run down on the job, and his joints began to ache. He went to a doctor and was given medication for his pain.

At about the same time, Bruce had become...

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