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U.S. v. Mayfield, No. 11-2439 (7th Cir.) (771 F.3d 417) (November 13, 2014) (Judge Diane S. Sykes)

Loaded on Nov. 17, 2014 published in Punch and Jurists November 17, 2014
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Stash-House Robbery.

This is an important decision about the availability of the defense of entrapment generally - but particularly in the context of a fake stash-house robbery orchestrated by the Government where its chief target was a person with a “serious criminal record.”

Here, by a vote of 8-2, the Seventh Circuit ...

 

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