United States v. Vicki L. Groll

How courts have described this case

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• noting that when a defendant raises an entrapment defense they can “admit to the conduct supporting the alleged offense” but “still claim [they are] legally innocent of the crime”
• noting that \three phone calls urging a defendant to buy cocaine after an initial refusal were not sufficient inducement\ but that an informant calling a defendant every day for a month raised a colorable claim
• vacating unexplained denial of motion to withdraw where uneontested facts in presentence report supported entrapment defense and defendant had not known of that possible defense
• reversing denial where defendant was unaware of available entrapment defense and court failed to adequately explain its reasoning
• finding inducement where government agent called defendant every day for over a month and then threatened her when she appeared to be backing out of drug sale
• describing government officials who called every day and \began threatening\ the defendant

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