Sam Jones, Jr. v. United States
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Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal and a motion for new trial on grounds of sentencing entrapment
Questions Presented QUESTION ONE Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice, and violation of essential requirements of law that occurred when the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s clear error and abuse of discretion by denying the motion for judgment of acquittal made after the government closed its case on August 3, 2020; and in denying the written post-trial motion for new trial on grounds of sentencing entrapment when the agents put not one, but two one-pound packages into the suitcase that Lieba rolled into Jones’ home ? QUESTION TWO Whether in the the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice and violation of essential requirements of law that occurred when the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court’s clear error and abuse of discretion by imposing a sentence of fifteen mandatory years on this less-culpable defendant? i