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Outrageous government conduct

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principles would absolutely bar the government from invoking judicial process to obtain a conviction." The defense must prove that law enforcement agents' tactics violated "that 'fundamental fairness, shocking to the universal sense of justice,' mandated by the
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which is considered, potentially, by a jury. Additionally, predisposition to commit a crime is irrelevant to the Outrageous Government Conduct defense and can succeed despite evidence of predisposition.
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In 2014, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright, II, cited outrageous government conduct when dismissing felony criminal charges as a result of an elaborate sting by the U.S.
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defense. The Outrageous Government Conduct defense is a bar to prosecution which is decided by the judge based on
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of the Fifth Amendment." The Outrageous Government Conduct defense is related to but distinct from the
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on the ground that the conduct of law enforcement agents was "so outrageous that
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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"The Outrageous Government Conduct Defense: An Interpretive Argument for Its Application by SCOTUS"
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