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State v. McBride

Citations

  • 599 P.2d 449
  • 287 Or. 315
  • 1979 Ore. LEXIS 1009

How courts have described this case

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  • “[s]ince inconsistent defenses are allowed in criminal cases generally, there is no justification for prohibiting them in cases involving entrapment.”
  • court refuses to impose admission requirement where “statutory codification of the entrapment defense, contains nothing that would require the defendant to admit doing the proscribed act before being allowed the benefit of the defense, ... ”
  • “A criminal defendant is entitled to have his theory of the case presented to the jury if there is evidence to support it. The trial court is not vested with discretion to refuse an instruction supported by the evidence.” (Citation omitted.)

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Judges: Howell

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