SOOHOO v. STATE

No. 97-3891.

737 So.2d 1108 (1999)

Kim SOOHOO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Bogen of the Law Offices of Robert L. Bogen, Boca Raton, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STEVENSON, J.

Appellant, Kim Soohoo, was tried by jury, convicted of trafficking in cocaine, and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. We reverse because we find that the trial court should have granted Soohoo's motion for judgment of acquittal based upon entrapment due to egregious conduct on the part of the government's confidential informant.

Soohoo was arrested in the parking lot of the Incredible Universe, a retail store in Broward County, when he met...

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