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293 F.2d 882

Docket No. 16161.

Branson v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued June 26, 1961.

Decided July 20, 1961.

Petition for Rehearing En Banc Denied Sept. 22, 1961.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1961-07-20

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1961

1 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Childs v. United States · Green v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1961-07-20

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¶1Circuit Judge Bazelon would grant the petition.

¶2Mr. James E. Hogan, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Arthur J. Hilland, Washington, D. C. (both appointed by the court) was on the brief, for appellant.

¶3Mr. John R. Schmertz, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Nathan J. Paulson, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., at the time the record was filed, Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., at the time the record was filed, Abbott A. Leban, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Mr. Daniel J. McTague, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered appearances for appellee.

¶4Before Wilbur K. Miller, Chief Judge, and Edgerton and Bastían, Circuit Judges.

¶5*883PER CURIAM.

¶6This is a narcotics case in which the appellant admitted making the sale with which he was charged but claimed he was the victim of entrapment.

¶7We find no error.

¶8Affirmed.

¶9EDGERTON, Circuit Judge

¶10(dissenting).

¶11Agents of the Narcotics Bureau procured the commission of the narcotics offenses of which the appellant has been convicted. This court has held that a conviction so obtained may be valid if it appears that the agents had a “reasonable suspicion” that the defendant was predisposed to commit the offenses. Childs v. United States, 105 U.S.App.D.C. 342, 343, 267 F.2d 619, 620. But in my opinion this does not appear in this case and the conviction should be reversed.

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