undercover-operations

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6039 Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations Was Kimbrell entitled to an entrapment instruction?
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…
19-8035 Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California California 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f…
19-6809 Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that 'Undercover agents may properly make use o…
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
18-9461 Antonio Tillmon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…