predisposition
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 23-6480 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-5960 | 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'… |
| 21-5002 | 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… |
| 20-6003 | 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… |
| 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… |