Ortiz Aponte, Ana Maria v. Maldonado Hernandez, Regalado

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• holding that predisposition must be established prior to the defendant's first contact with a government agent
• holding that the government must prove predisposition beyond a reasonable doubt prior to the government’s having approached defendant
• holding that once government inducement is shown, “the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was disposed to commit the criminal act prior to first being approached by Government agents.”
• holding that government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person’s mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the government may prosecute
• concluding that “the prosecution failed, as a matter of law, to adduce evidence to support the jury verdict that petitioner was predisposed * * * to violate the law”
• finding that predisposition is, by definition, the defendant’s state of mind and inclination before exposure to government action

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