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AVILA v. STATE

No. A-7145.

22 P.3d 890 (2001)

Sal AVILA, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied April 20, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon Barr, Assistant Public Defender, and Barbara K. Brink, Public Defender, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Nancy R. Simel, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, J.

In the summer of 1997, Sal Avila was an inmate at the Palmer Correctional Center. The state troopers and the Wasilla police ran a "sting" operation in an attempt to catch Avila distributing heroin at the prison. To carry out this scheme, the police enlisted another inmate, Dennis Cash, as a "false friend".

Cash owed Avila $150. Using a story worked out by the police, Cash told Avila that he would pay off this debt in...

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