entrapment-defense

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment 1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w…
23-6480 Joseph D. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to: (1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te…
23-6103 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv…
23-5990 Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review 1. Does fraud, perpetrated by the federal government during a federal criminal proceeding so as to obstruct a defendant from mounting an entrapment de…
23-485 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony Whether a defendant is constitutionally entitled to obtain use immunity for the only person who can disprove the defendant's guilt, when the Governmen…
23A164 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States First Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete compulsory-process entrapment-defense fifth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment use-immunity Whether the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process require the government to grant use immunity to a defense witness whose ex…
22-6039 Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations Was Kimbrell entitled to an entrapment instruction?
22-5150 Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal Whether a district court errs when it permits the government to introduce highly inflammatory, and otherwise inadmissible, evidence to preemptively re…
21-7444 Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins…
20-5548 James Michael Hood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-predisposition digital-inducement digital-relationships due-process entrapment entrapment-defense law-enforcement-sting minor-enticement predisposition sting-operation Whether, when the government has induced a person to break the law and the defense of entrapment is at issue, the government need only show that its i…
19-8698 Neal Scott Stone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit whether-the-sixth-circuit's-amended-order-conflicts-with-lozada-v-deeds
19-5176 Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem…
18-1443 Nicholas Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra…
18-8575 Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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 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
18-7885 Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance…