STATE v. O'NEILL

No. 40314-1-I.

967 P.2d 985 (1998)

STATE of Washington, Respondent, v. Brian K. O'NEILL, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

July 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Lobsenz, Meredith M. Rountree, Carney, Badley, Smith & Spellman, Seattle, for Appellant.

H. D. Evans, Prosecuting Atty King County, King County Prosecutor/Appellate Unit, Seattle, for Respondent.


COLEMAN, Judge.

Brian O'Neill appeals his conviction for bribing a police officer to avoid having his arrest paperwork processed. He claimed entrapment. Unlike the normal entrapment case, the police officer was not advancing legitimate law enforcement objectives when he accepted O'Neill's bribe. We hold that the lower court properly declined to dismiss the prosecution for outrageous governmental behavior or for the few incidental references at trial to the police...

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