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Title: United States V. Simtob
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Release Date : January 26, 1990
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 64 KB

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Appellant Solomon Simtob appeals his conviction on one count of distribution of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Simtob's defense at trial was entrapment. He contends on appeal that the failure of the district judge, after the close of evidence, to admit into evidence a tape recording which allegedly established perjury by the government's main witness on the issue of predisposition violated Simtob's sixth amendment rights to confrontation and compulsory process. He also challenges the trial court's admission of twelve- and thirteen-year old convictions on similar charges of drug distribution which the prosecutor argued were probative of predisposition, and contends that certain prosecutorial misconduct during examination of witnesses denied him a fair trial. We reverse the conviction.