Court Opinion

ID: 9670840
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:27:02.193609+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:06.732274
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VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
I agree that the “sting” operation does not constitute entrapment. I did not believe the “reverse sting” operation constituted entrapment in State v. Rummer, 481 N.W.2d 437 (N.D.1992). I agreed with the result in that case because “the actions of the law enforcement officers were contrary to public policy” in that the officers, without authority of their superiors took drugs from the evidence room at the police department. I suggested we conclude that “as a matter of public policy we will not sustain a conviction obtained by intolerable conduct on the part of law enforcement agents, notwithstanding the entrapment statute.” Rummer, supra at 444-445 (Vande Walle, J. concurring specially). Despite White’s testimony to the contrary, the trial court found no intolerable conduct.
I agree the conviction should be affirmed.