United States v. Alphonso Pedraza, United States of America v. Peter Brent Irelan, United States of America v. Enrique Pedraza

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• finding no outrageous conduct where the defendants did not show “they lacked the capacity to commit the crime without the government’s assistance” (alterations and quotations omitted)
• Brady not implicated where telephone calls were not recorded due to equipment failure, among other things
• Brady not implicated where telephone calls were not recorded due to equipment failure, among other things
• “Excessive government involvement occurs if the government engineers and directs the criminal enterprise from start to finish.” (quotation and brackets omitted)
• neither the informant’s suggestion that parties smuggle cocaine instead of marijuana nor the government’s heavy involvement in cocaine-smuggling plan rose to the level of outrageous conduct
• “To succeed on an outrageous conduct defense, the defendant must show either: (1) excessive government involvement in the creation of the crime, or (2) significant governmental coercion to induce the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).