government-inducement
6 cases — ← All topics
| 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 |