undercover-operation
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A564 | James Dean Hanapel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | entrapment law-enforcement minor-solicitation online-sting sexual-exploitation undercover-operation | Whether the First Amendment and entrapment doctrine limit law enforcement's ability to conduct online sting operations targeting potential sex offende… | |
| 23-636 | Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions | Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes… |
| 23-6095 | Jerome McGoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation | Is Arkansas state authorized to use a confidential informant in an undercover operation to make controlled buys? |
| 21-8137 | David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation | Whether an attorney's decision to forego a viable defense can be considered 'strategic' if the attorney misunderstood the law |
| 21-5002 | Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations | Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that Mr. Robinson was not entitled to a jury instruction regarding the affirmative defense o… |
| 20-1702 | Jimmy Cobb v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation | Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and 18 … |