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· 12/8/2006

United States v. James H. Giffen

Citations

  • 473 F.3d 30
  • 98 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 8124
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 30367
  • 2006 WL 3544862

How courts have described this case

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  • addressing, inter alia, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12.3, which governs the notice requirement for a defendant’s assertion of a public authority-defense, and defendant’s criminal indictment for violations of several federal statutes
  • where official encouraged defendant to continue with his informant activities, the former had not authorized the defendant to commit illegal conduct not mentioned in the previous disclosures
  • “when the government, by its own actions, induced him to do those acts ...”

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Judges: Walker, Leval, Sotomayor

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