sting-operation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6147 Mohamed Osman Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sting-operation Whether the Ninth Circuit is genuinely adhering to the Supreme Court's standard for issuing certificates of appealability or sub silentio denying them…
20-8262 Francisco Hilt and Sean Alexander v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process entrapment firearms-possession impeachment-evidence informant-disclosure sting-operation Does the government's suppression of an informant's identity and impeachment evidence in a sting operation violate Rovario v. United States, Smith v. …
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…
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?
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges