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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. § 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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