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U.S. v. Kirkland, No. 94-3180 (D.C. Cir.) (104 F.3d 1403) (January 24, 1997) (Judge Laurence H. Silberman)

Once again the D.C. Circuit affirmed its hard-and-fast rule that a claim of entrapment defeats any chance of a sentence reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. ยง 3E1.1. It also strongly criticized decisions from the Third, Sixth and Ninth Circuits which have suggested that raising an entrapment defense does ...

 

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