entrapment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6437 | Armando Molina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense defendant-rights defense-counsel entrapment sixth-amendment trial-strategy | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to determine the objectives of one's own defense is violated when defense counsel, against the defendant's wishes, s… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1082 | Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | compulsory-process due-process entrapment evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure witness-disclosure | 1. Whether the admission in evidence of 161 eBay & PayPal accounts seized and modified by them with information obtained from Postal Inspectors to fab… |
| 23-6797 | Mark Steven Domingo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process entrapment inducement predisposition similar-crimes | 1. When a defendant raises an entrapment defense, must the government disprove entrapment by establishing predisposition or a lack of inducement as to… |
| 23-6103 | Alvin Celius Andre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation | I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv… |
| 23-485 | Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony | Whether a defendant is constitutionally entitled to obtain use immunity for the only person who can disprove the defendant's guilt, when the Governmen… | |
| 22-7620 | Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Why was a Sixth Amendment violation not addressed in the Lower courts where defendant's lawyer failed utter the Strickland standards? How is the defe… |
| 22-7010 | Jeffrey Jay York v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enticement criminal-law enticement entrapment evidence government-agents interstate-facilities interstate-transmission jury-evidence minor minor-solicitation | WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICENT EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YORK/ I. OF ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR A. WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICIENT EVIDENC… |
| 22-6947 | Alexander Samuel Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 due-process entrapment false-statements fbi-investigation government-fabrication materiality statutory-interpretation | Whether a statement made to FBI agents can be material and knowingly false under 18 U.S.C. §1001(a) when the criminal enterprise underlying the statem… |
| 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 | Petitioner was subjected to a pervasive inducement campaign by government agents using social media and texts to his personal phone. The question pres… |
| 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 | Two FBI agents, posing as two parents and their unrealistically precocious 11-year-old child, convinced Kimbrell that the child was desperately wantin… |
| 22-5355 | Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age | I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 22-5150 | Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-21 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal | The Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits require that before the government may introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence to rebut a c… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his ineffe… |
| 21-7444 | Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition | When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins… |
| 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 | 1. In an entrapment case where the defendant has met his burden on the threshold element of inducement, may the government establish predisposition me… |
| 21-6178 | Henry Baird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment | WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-5960 | Alexander Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus attempt attempt-offense criminal-law criminal-statute entrapment overt-act predisposition substantial-step | 1. Whether the requirement of a "substantial step" can be satisfied by conduct occurring after the alleged attempt has ended. 2. Whether a defendant'… |
| 21-5799 | Robert Ronald Perales v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment law-enforcement online-persona outrageous-government-conduct | Outrageous government conduct exists when the actions of law enforcement are shocking to the universal sense of justice. Outrageous government conduct… |
| 21-5235 | Vincent Holton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | 1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ? 2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the… |
| 21-5039 | Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony | I. Petitioner pointed to the Government agent's testimony about his "recruitment" role and activities for co-defendant Patrick Stein, and admitted tes… |
| 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 | An undercover officer created a fake social media profile for a fictitious 18-year-old woman on a website where a user must expressly represent her ag… |
| 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. |
| 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 | 1. In an ATF sting operation, the government failed to disclose the identity of the informant pretrial, and the defense was entrapment. The defense di… |
| 20-6006 | Terrance Leon Washington v. Crystal Willett, Superintendent, Meherrin River Regional Jail | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-conviction | \ow jmftrcxmxaA °u S&oSch ay\^ ^^ iXnL Wl^ fraud\xUrJ- S*arck Wo^on^and ^jC-d l(j 6 jo bu/lXcP xnW/n^s an (Kras ^ ^ W'W *U>'^W prcUkk ^rxXw^raX Jdv4w … |
| 20-6003 | Alvin Celius Andre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-procedure entrapment government-intervention jacobson-v-united-states jury-instruction predisposition ready-willingness | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Entrapment Jury Instruction is in Conflict With Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992) and the Majority of t… |
| 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… |
| 19-7040 | Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings | Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that "Undercover agents may properly make us… |
| 19-5176 | Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing | Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 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 this Court should decide the important but unsettled question as to whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government c… |
| 18-1443 | Nicholas Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism | 1. Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the en… | |
| 18-8575 | Jose Camargo-Alejo, aka Jessica Camargo-Alejo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 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 | 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 decli… |
| 18-8500 | Nickey Ardd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | Consistent with this Court's decision in Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. at 60-61 (1963). When the disclosure of the name of confidential informant… |
| 18-8469 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-7344 | Tony Dickinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error | I. Whether this Court Should Resolve the longstanding Conflict among Federal Courts over whether the Fifth Amendment Delay caused by the government as… |
| 18-836 | Phil Miranda Luna v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | capital-sexual-battery criminal-procedure due-process entrapment internet-sting internet-sting-operation jury-instruction jury-instructions minor sexual-battery statutory-entrapment traveling-to-engage-sex-with-minor | QUESTION 1: Whether due process is denied when a trial court refuses to instruct a jury on a statutory entrapment defense because a defendant, charged… |
| 18-7151 | Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting | Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government agents and their confidential informant essentially, engineered and … |
| 18-5824 | James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop | 1.THE RIGHT TO A FAIRTRIAL , " PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY " FOUTH AMENDMENT" THE TRAFFIC STOP. ENTAPMENT. |
| 18-5543 | In Re Andre David Leffebre | 2018-08-10 | Dismissed | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel | Question not identified. | |
| 18-5074 | Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce | Under the Due Process Clause, did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request/motion for an entrapment instruction when the record co… |