United States v. Martin Floyd Benning

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the defendant bears the burden of proof in asserting the affirmative defense of entrapment by estoppel
• emphasizing a government official must be guilty of “affirmative misconduct” for a defendant to succeed with an entrapment-by-estoppel defense
• applying objective reasonableness standard to determine that defendant’s reliance on wording of ATF form to support defense of entrapment by estoppel was not reasonable; government’s motion in limine upheld
• same as to entrapment by estoppel defense
• defendant has burden of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).