Ecoline, Inc. v. Local Union No. 12 of the International Assn. of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers

How courts have described this case

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• finding that entrapment “only comes into play” when “the [g]overnment’s deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant”
• “Being limited in our review to questions of law, ... our function is to determine whether there were sufficient facts of record and permissible inferences from which a rational factfinder could have discounted entrapment as a defense, beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• “unquestionably, the entrapment defense was raised by appellant’s own testimony,” though appellant profited from transaction
• “unquestionably, the entrapment defense was raised by appellant’s own testimony,” though appellant profited from transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).