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U.S. v. SIMPSON

No. 84-5301.

813 F.2d 1462 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Darrel Paterson SIMPSON, Robert Macriner Anderson, and James Roy Freeman, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Brendan O'Neill and Joshua C. Needle, Santa Monica, Cal., and Donald Etra, Charles Pereyra-Suarez, Joan Howarth, Paul Hoffman, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

James D. Henderson and D. Blair Watson, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Luis S. Katz, San Diego, Cal., Ephraim Margolin, Los Angeles, Cal., for the amicus.

Before HUG, NORRIS and HALL, Circuit Judges.

NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

In 1983 the FBI employed Helen Miller as an informant in an investigation of defendant Darrel Simpson, then a suspected heroin dealer. At that time, Miller was known by the FBI to be a prostitute, a heroin user, and a fugitive from Canadian drug charges. Posing as stranded travelers at the Los Angeles International Airport, Miller and a fellow informant, Karen Eccles, enticed Simpson into giving them a ride into town. They ended up at Simpson...

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