UNITED STATES v. TOM

No. 80-1229.

640 F.2d 1037 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Douglas Chew Kam TOM, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Blanchfield, Blanchfield & Chikamoto, Honolulu, Hawaii, on briefs, for defendant-appellant.

Elliott Enoki, Asst. U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WRIGHT, CHOY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


CHOY, Circuit Judge:

The defendant appeals from his conviction for distribution of cocaine, alleging error in the admission at trial of evidence of his prior drug conviction and in the form of the instruction to the jury on entrapment. We affirm the conviction.

I. Facts

On two separate occasions in 1979, the defendant, Douglas Chew Kam Tom ("Tom"), sold quarter-ounce portions of cocaine to an undercover agent. Tom was convicted by jury of...

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