United States v. Christ Theodosopoulos and Khadir Ghanayem, United States of America v. Khadir Ghanayem

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• concluding that post- trial testimony of person who exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination does not qualify as \newly discovered evidence\ because defendant knew substance of testimony during trial
• explaining that a predisposed defendant is one who “was disposed to commit the crime prior to being ap- proached by government agents”
• noting that defendant’s failure to abandon a criminal transaction “when it encountered trouble spots” is evidence of a lack of reluctance
• rejecting entrapment defense where interaction between defendant and government “merely stretched over the course of three months and nine meetings”
• finding no inducement when the defendant’s interaction with the government occurred over “three months and nine meetings”
• defendant's attorney had interviewed co-defendant prior to trial and obtained the contents of his proposed testimony

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