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Title: Travis Robert Reid v. United States
Author : United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Release Date : January 23, 1964
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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The trial court instructed fully as to the elements essential to the defense of entrapment. It did not, however, expressly instruct the jury as to whether the burden of proof rested with Reid to prove unlawful entrapment, or with the prosecution to show that there was no unlawful entrapment. Nor did the court expressly instruct as to the quantum of proof necessary to sustain such burden wherever it lay. The trial court did give the usual general instruction on the presumption of innocence and to the effect that the burden was on the Government to prove every essential element of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt