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SPARKS v. STATE

No. 788, September Term, 1991.

91 Md. App. 35 (1992)

603 A.2d 1258

MARK EDWARD SPARKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer P. Lyman, Assigned Public Defender, Washington, D.C. (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Christian J. Jensen, State's Atty. for Caroline County, Denton, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN, DAVIS and MOTZ, JJ.

MOYLAN, Judge.

The entrapment defense is as modern as Abscam.1 It is as ancient as the Book of Genesis: "The serpent beguiled me and I did eat."2 On the merits, it seldom enjoys any more success today than it did in the Garden of Eden.3 As a generative source of appellate litigation, however, it has been perennially luxuriant.

Although pioneered in the state courts,

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