United States v. Edward T. Smith, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• requiring that the defendant rely on the advice and “continue! ] or initiate! ] the conduct”
• suggesting that testimony from preliminary hearing might be used for purposes of impeachment at trial
• suggesting that the defendant's testimony at a preliminary hearing could be \used against him for impeachment purposes at trial\
• affirming exclusion of evidence purporting to raise the defense as immaterial as a matter of law
• rejecting entrapment by estoppel defense because, while BATF agent purportedly told defendant that he wanted him to retain guns to assist in undercover investigation, agent never expressly told defendant that possession of firearms would be legal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).