Criminal
Mar. 1, 2006
Informant's Drug Sentence Is Reversed
SAN FRANCISCO - Sometimes there is a good excuse for selling illegal drugs, such as: "I'm working for the Drug Enforcement Administration." A Los Angeles undercover informant has won reversal of a 20-year prison term for dealing methamphetamine because a federal jury was not allowed to consider her defense - that she engaged in the illegal activity to help the government in a criminal investigation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sometimes there is a good excuse for selling illegal drugs, such as: "I'm working for the Drug Enforcement Administration."
A Los Angeles undercover informant has won reversal of a 20-year prison term for dealing methamphetamine because a federal jury was not allowed to consider...
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