Court Opinion

ID: 9544275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:53:53.9476+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:12:32.662457
License: Public Domain

BRETT, Judge
(specially concurring).
I concur in the results of this decision, but I also believe the sentence is excessive insofar as this is the first arrest or conviction sustained by this twenty-one year old defendant. I agree that the instruction on entrapment was not justified, because the defendant testified that he distributed contraband items to his friends, which shows a propensity to distribute. However, I again state that these situations, in my opinion, are the type that should have been charged as separate counts under 22 O.S.1971, § 404; and that two informa-tions were not justified, notwithstanding separate dates on which distribution occurred. Technically, it should be said that the defendant should have been arrested after the first violation of the law. The fact that he was not is even more justification for the separate counts pnder one information.