United States v. Francis William Groessel

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• distinguishing between sufficient evidence for a jury instruction on entrapment and evidence establishing entrapment as a matter of law, which must be “patently clear” or “obvious” that the defendant was entrapped
• describing defendant’s burden as “burden of going forward” rather than “burden of persuasion”
• describing defendant’s burden as “burden of going forward” rather than “burden of persuasion”
• describing defendant's burden as \burden of going forward\ rather than \burden of persuasion\
• “There is no entrapment, however, if the accused is ready and willing to commit the crime whenever the opportunity might be afforded—even if by government agents or informers acting under their supervision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).