Wallace v. Price

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• explaining that agency element is distinct from the deliberate elicitation element
• holding no deliberate elicitation where “[t]here [was] no evidence of instruction to obtain information and no evidence that informant initiated the conversation” even where the informant was placed in a cell near defendant and they had a prior personal relationship
• noting there was “no evidence that [the informant] initiated the conversation with [the defendant]” and upholding magistrate’s ruling that the defendant had failed to direct the court to any evidence that the informant deliberately elicited statements
• noting there was “no evidence that [the informant] initiated the conversation with [the defendant]” and upholding magistrate’s ruling that the defendant had failed to direct the court to any evidence that the informant deliberately elicited statements

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