United States v. Jose Ramirez-Valencia, A.K.A. Rodolfo Ramirez-Valencia, A.K.A. Don Enrique, A.K.A. Jose Ramiro-Ramirez

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• stating that a defendant must show that an official “affirmatively misrepresented]” the applicable legal constraints
• explaining that although INS Form 1-294 contained the misstatement that “any deported person who within five years returns without permission is guilty of a felony,” the form did not expressly tell the defendant that it would be lawful for him to return to the United States after five years
• “To succeed under [the entrapment by estoppel] theory, defendant must do more than show that the government made vague or even contradictory statements.”
• “[B]ecause Form I-294 unequivocally required defendant to obtain permission to return to the United States, which he did not do, his alleged reliance was ... unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).