Opinion ID: 1150524
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Text: William Martinez testified that in the summer of 1973, he was twenty-one years old and then had been addicted to heroin for seven or eight years. He was arrested by sheriff's officers for possession of narcotics paraphernalia and agreed to exchange information. He was an informant for the sheriff's office. A sheriff's detective introduced him to Joseph and Ward. They gave him narcotics when he told them he could not work for them because he had no time  he was hustling to get money. Both were present with him in an undercover narcotics car in a parking garage on the first occasion on which the pair gave him heroin. Ward loaned him an outfit with which he injected himself in the car. He gave the outfit back to Ward. On the next occasion he was given heroin in the police station on his promise to make it up to you on some other things. Later that day he set up the arrest of an acquaintance. Joseph and Ward made the arrest and again at the police station gave Martinez part of the heroin they had seized in the arrestee's hotel room. On a third occasion, at the direction of Ward and Joseph, Martinez arranged a buy in which he introduced another undercover agent to a heroin seller who had offered him an ounce of heroin. The seller was arrested by Ward and Joseph. Later, at the station the two officers showed Martinez heroin they had taken from the seller and gave part of it to Martinez. Martinez then told them that the seller's wife kept the heroin supply in her home. The officers drove Martinez to the home, and he was able to convince the seller's wife to give him the heroin to hold since the police might come. She gave Martinez 15 to 20 balloons which he kept. The officers did not ask him for it. These activities occurred during the period between the summer of 1973 and early 1974.