government-inducement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6908 | Norris Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | due-process entrapment government-inducement habeas-corpus jury-instructions predisposition | 1. Whether the federal courts of appeals are irreconcilably divided on the proper formulation of entrapment jury instructions, specifically: (A) what … |
| 24A156 | Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit government-inducement judicial-review sentencing-entrapment standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 22-1043 | Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Sixth Circuit split with the Second, and erroneously departed from this Court's jurisprudence, when it refused to honor the spirit of the … |
| 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… |
| 22-537 | Ramy Eid Zaki Hakim v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process evidentiary-hearing government-inducement government-promise guilty-plea immigration-status judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal | When Can a Defendant, Induced to Enter a Guilty Plea by the Government's Promise to Assist the Defendant with His Immigration Status, Move to Withdraw… |
| 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… |
| 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. |