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U.S. v. Rizzo, No. 96-2002 (1st Cir.) (121 F.3d 794) (August 11, 1997) (Judge Norman H. Stahl)

For years, the courts have delicately skirted the infamous practices of sentencing entrapment and its cousin, sentencing factor manipulation. Sentencing entrapment occurs "when the government causes a defendant initially predisposed to commit a lesser crime to commit a more serious crime"; whereas sentencing factor manipulation occurs "when the government engages ...

 

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