United States v. Lorenzo Naranjo

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• casting doubt on defendant's predisposition to deal in large quantities of drugs when oniy source for his history in drug trafficking was informant who was attempting to get favorable sentence in connection with his own conviction
• remanding where it was unclear “what findings the district court relied on in finding Naranjo predisposed to cocaine dealing,” especially given the absence of any real evidence of such predisposition
• vacating sentence and remanding for resentencing where “[bjecause the district court provided no factual findings on the record, we are unable to ascertain what facts it relied upon in finding that Naranjo did not adequately prove sentencing entrapment”
• suggesting entrapment might exist where DEA had no evidence defendant previously engaged in drug trafficking, defendant resisted undercover agent’s repeated efforts to buy large quantity of cocaine, and defendant could not pay for large quantity
• noting agents had to persuade defendant to go through with drug transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).