government-conduct
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5762 | Muhammad Masood v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 22-7247 | Claudia Castillo Guzman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentence-manipulation sentencing | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a sentencing court refuses to consider, as a mitigating factor, whether the government has engaged in … |
| 22-5455 | Tyrone Woolaston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation | Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense |
| 20-5522 | Obatala Blount v. Bridgett Beecher | Georgia | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection government-conduct judicial-review | Whether the government's alleged unconstitutional conduct in denying the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection was pr… |
| 18-9731 | Youval Geringer-Ganor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-conduct judicial-review outrageous-government-conduct sting-operation sting-operations | Whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government conduct warranting dismissal of the charges? |