United States v. Richard D. Barnett Virgil R. Drake

How courts have described this case

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• “an informer may be an agent of the government even if its officials do not directly orchestrate [the informer’s] activities. Law enforcement authorities may not . . . secure insulation from charges of entrapment simply by leaving the informers to their own devices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).