Ambroselli v. Anapolsky CA3
The distant origin of this bizarre case lies in the efforts of Richard Powers to escape prosecution by the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office for four counts of felony drunk driving. Fearing convictions would ruin him professionally, Powers sought to make a deal with the district attorney by which he would escape prosecution in exchange for acting as a confidential informant about another, bigger crime. Powers’s problem? He did not have a bigger crime to report. Undeterred, Powers made up a story that his friend, Marco Ambroselli, was illegally selling performance-enhancing drugs. When the district attorney deemed the information insufficient to stave off Powers’s prosecution, Powers decided to set up Ambroselli to sell a few ounces of cocaine. This ruse worked. The prosecution dropped the charges against Powers, and Ambroselli took the fall by spending several years in prison for the cocaine sale.
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