DEFENSE · 21usc841:x-entrapment
Requires showing government inducement of the crime plus absence of predisposition on the part of the defendant to engage in the criminal conduct (Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58 (1988)).
Exact element source
it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally-Source:
docroot/ir/usc/title21.jsonl#title21_sec841; Unicode character offsets [83:146] (end exclusive); SHA-256 ebaba73bf6e21a591f44bf851f24a052a5687813c505030cd9483e17753e9420.All variants
| Variant | Description | Merits instance blocks | Distinct cases | Example cases (up to 3 per group) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unspecified variant | No variant assigned in the database. | 0 Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 1 | 0 | No counted merits examples Excluded context examples: /f3d/20/0229-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1994 — applied/procedural |
How courts decided this element
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Variant | Exact source quotations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| /f3d/20/0229-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1994 | Affirmative defense of entrapment (government inducement + lack of predisposition) | not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / procedural claim: (a)(1),(b)(1)(D) Raised for the first time on appeal (informant sent into the home to buy); court declined to consider it. | Unspecified variant | No source quotation recorded for this block. |
Court interpretations
interpretation
In order to establish the knowing or intentional distribution of a controlled substance, the government needed only.to show that defendant knowingly or intentionally delivered a controlled substance.
/f3d/20/0229-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1994
In order to establish the knowing or intentional distribution of a controlled substance, the government needed only.to show that defendant knowingly or intentionally delivered a controlled substance.Source:
docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_20.jsonl#/f3d/20/0229-01; Unicode character offsets [5072:5271] (end exclusive); SHA-256 1b8c4fb6d1b27c83cc97582c53236d4fe132b40a4a1a11e5f6552d400bb8d267.Requires showing government inducement of the crime plus absence of predisposition on the part of the defendant to engage in the criminal conduct (Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58 (1988)).