Robert W. Baucom v. John R. Martin, as District Attorney Pro Tem, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• “if the officer makes an error in judgment in what the officer conceives to be his legal duty, that alone will not serve to create criminal responsibility in a federal officer”
• “[e]ven if the officer makes an error in judgment in what the officer conceives to be his legal duty, that alone will not serve to create criminal responsibility in a federal officer”
• FBI agent who bribed a state prosecutor in an undercover operation
• errors in judgment of legal duty cannot alone create criminal liability
• a pplying princi­ ples o f In re N ea g le and holding that FBI agent was not su b ject to state prosecution for attem pting to bribe state official as part o f a federal law enforcem ent operation designed to uncover corruption in state govern­ m ent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).