government-inducement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A156 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit government-inducement judicial-review sentencing-entrapment standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the legal standard for sentencing entrapment when denying the defendant's claim of improper government …
22-1043 Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether the government's advocacy for higher sentencing guidelines at sentencing than estimated during plea negotiations renders the plea unknowing an…
22-6601 Rick Benavides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-admissibility government-inducement law-enforcement-conduct predisposition social-media Whether predisposition to defeat an entrapment defense may be proved by the government using statements found on Petitioner's phone that were created …
22-537 Ramy Eid Zaki Hakim v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response Waived due-process evidentiary-hearing government-inducement government-promise guilty-plea immigration-status judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal When can a defendant withdraw a guilty plea induced by the government's promise to assist with immigration status?
21-6425 Maycol Mendez-Maradiaga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-activity entrapment government-inducement inconsistent-verdicts jury-verdicts predisposition prior-experience willing-participant Whether the government must show predisposition at the time of inducement in an entrapment case
20-8306 Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent Whether the 'government inducement' element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent