1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.3d
  4. 467 F.3d
  5. 467 F.3d 179 (2006)
 

U.S. v. BRAND

Docket No. 05-4155-CR.

467 F.3d 179 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Matthew Adam BRAND, also known as Tempoteech, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 19, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander H. Southwell, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief; Marshall Camp, Assistant United States Attorney, and Kevin R. Puvalowski, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellee.

Colleen P. Cassidy, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Appellant.

Before MINER, WESLEY, and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.

WESLEY, Circuit Judge.

This case requires careful consideration of the affirmative defense of entrapment. Under the entrapment doctrine, "[g]overnment agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person's mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute." Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540, 548, 112 S.Ct. 1535, 118 L.Ed.2d 174...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases