United States v. Darrel Paterson Simpson, Robert MacRiner Anderson, and James Roy Freeman

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the deceptive creation and/or exploitation of an intimate relationship,” on its own, does not constitute outrageous government misconduct
• observing that it is “common practice for the government to reduce or drop charges against persons who cooperate with law enforcement officials in the prosecution of others”
• finding no outrageous government conduct where the sting exploited “an emotionally intimate relationship between lovers”
• “findings contain no suggestion that the FBI agents created the criminal enterprise. To the contrary, the FBI already had a ‘tremendous amount of knowledge with regard to [Simpson’s] activities’ when they targeted him for investigation”
• upholding decision to continue use of informant who had sexual relations' with defendant
• finding no due process violation where the government informant was a heroin-using prostitute whose own conduct was under investigation and who engaged in sexual intercourse with the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).