No. 18-8575

Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement-intent ninth-circuit-precedent objective-theory sorrells-v-united-states subjective-theory
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court may decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Following this Court’s adoption of a subjective theory of entrapment in Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (1932), and progeny, may a court decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime? prefix

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-04-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-03-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 25, 2019)

Attorneys

Jessica Camargo-Alejo
Harini P. RaghupathiFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
Harini P. RaghupathiFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent