United States ex rel. Insurance Co. of North America v. Santa Fe Engineers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• adding that “its scope is surely not to be expanded” and that defendants’ “are entitled to no more from the courts than a testing of Abscam against constitutional standards”
• rejecting outrageous governmental conduct claim in Abscam case, where defendant alleged government agents violated due process by creating and instigating the crime
• rejecting outrageous governmental conduct claim in Abscam case, where defendant alleged government agents violated due process by creating and instigating the crime
• even extremely large financial inducements do not rise to the level of due process violations
• “Unlike the entrapment defense, which focuses on the defendant’s predisposition, th[e] due process claim focuses on the conduct of the government agents.”
• “[A] defendant who fails to assert entrapment as a factual defense at his trial, cannot assert it as a legal defense to his conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).