No. 18-8575
Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement-intent ninth-circuit-precedent objective-theory sorrells-v-united-states subjective-theory
Latest Conference:
2019-04-26
Question Presented (from Petition)
Following this Court's adoption of a subjective theory of entrapment in Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (1932), and progeny, may a court decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a court may decline to instruct a jury on an entrapment defense because the government agents did not objectively intend to induce a crime
Docket Entries
2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-04-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-03-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 25, 2019)
Attorneys
Jessica Camargo-Alejo
Harini P. Raghupathi — Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent