Punch and Jurists

U.S. v. Hollingsworth, No. 92-2399 (7th Cir.) (27 F.3d 1196) (June 2, 1994) (Judge Richard A. Posner) by In this case a sharply divided en banc Court attempted to "clarify" the meaning of predisposition - the critical issue to be determined when a person claims the defense of entrapment. In …

U.S. v. Skarie, No. 91-50007 (9th Cir.) (971 F.2d 317) (July 28, 1992) (Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson) by This is one of those rare cases in which a drug conviction was vacated because the court found that the Government had failed to prove that the defendant had the required "predisposition" …