United States v. Irving Braver and Morton Lehrer

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the “defendant’s burden of proof [as to inducement] must be at least the ‘preponderance’ or ‘more-likely- than-not’ standard”
• noting that defense “does not negative any essential elements” of the crime at issue
• where the court held that placing the burden of proving inducement on the defendant under an entrapment defense does not constitute a denial of due process under Winship
• if the jury “finds some evidence of government initiation of the illegal conduct, the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was ready and willing to commit the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).