Legal Opinion
United States v. Leslie Mayfield
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 13, 2014No. 11-2439PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Leslie Mayfield was indicted for conspiring with a coworker and a drug courier to rob a stash house controlled by the courier’s suppliers. The conspiracy was a setup; the drug courier was an undercover government agent and the coworker was an informant. At his trial Mayfield wanted to present a defense of entrapment, but the government opposed it and moved in limine to preclude the defense, arguing that there wasn’t enough evidence to show that the government induced the crime or that Mayfield lacked the predisposition to commit it. Mayfield responded with a narrative of…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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