United States v. Pillado

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the most significant factor in predisposition analysis is “whether the defendant was reluctant to commit the offense”
• explaining that the most significant factor in predisposition analysis is “whether the defendant was reluctant to commit the offense”
• stating that inducement does not occur where “the government’s actions simply provided an opportunity for a person who was already ready and willing to commit the offense”
• stating that inducement does not occur where “the government’s actions simply provided an opportunity for a person who was already ready and willing to commit the offense”
• “[A] defen- dant must proffer some evidence on both elements of the entrapment defense to warrant the instruction … .”
• “[A] defendant must proffer some evidence on both elements of the entrapment defense to warrant the instruction....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).