reverse-sting
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6544 | Lemack Bellot v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 22-5680 | Wigberto Viera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-sting due-process judicial-authority mandatory-minimum reverse-sting sentencing-manipulation separation-of-powers stash-house | Whether this Court should recognize the defense of sentencing manipulation, in accordance with the majority of Courts of Appeals, and rule that senten… |
| 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 … |
| 18-199 | Ken Liang v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doj-investigation due-process government-misconduct jury-trial jury-trial-waiver material-witness obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct reverse-sting | Is it an Obstruction of Justice, when an individual obstructs an oppressive DOJ investigation, when, the alleged crime to be investigated was not a cr… |