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.