United States v. Rebecca Abcasis, Ralph Abcasis and Simon Abcasis

How courts have described this case

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• stating that entrapment by estoppel doctrine “depends on the unfairness of prosecuting one who has been led by the conduct of government agents to believe his acts were authorized”
• remanding for a new trial when the district court instructed a jury on actual authority, but not entrapment by estoppel
• public authority defense will not “support a claim of an open-ended license to commit crimes in the expectation of receiving subsequent authorization”
• “If a drug enforcement agent solicits a defendant ... or effectively communicates an assurance ...”
• “The defendant’s conduct must remain within the general scope of the solicitation or assurance of authorization; this defense will not support a claim of an open-ended license to commit crimes in the expectation of receiving subsequent authorization.”
• defining “reasonable reliance” in this way

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).