entrapment-defense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5249 | Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment | 1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w… |
| 23-6480 | Joseph D. Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition | Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to: (1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te… |
| 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… |
| 23-5990 | Kirk A. Simmons v. Thomas Scarantino | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2241 aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure entrapment-defense federal-criminal-procedure government-fraud government-misconduct habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review | 1. Does fraud, perpetrated by the federal government during a federal criminal proceeding so as to obstruct a defendant from mounting an entrapment de… |
| 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… | |
| 23A164 | Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Presumed Complete | compulsory-process entrapment-defense fifth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment use-immunity | 1. This case squarely presents a question that has divided the courts of appeals. Mr. Munera-Gomez was charged with drug offenses and raised an entrap… | |
| 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… |
| 22-5150 | 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… |
| 21-7444 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 19-8698 | Neal Scott Stone v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit | 1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and pr… |
| 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… |
| 18-1443 | 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… |
| 18-7885 | Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions | QUESTION (1) Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffecti… |