United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Joe Garza-Juarez and Esteban Garza-Juarez, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with cross appeals. Appellants Joe Juarez and Esteban Juarez, who were convicted on charges stemming from the sale of firearms and the possession of unregistered suppressors (silencers), present questions of entrapment and improper and vindictive prosecutorial conduct. The government appeals from the district court’s downward departure from the sentencing guidelines recommendations, the sentencing court being of the view that the government’s investigatory conduct was sufficiently coercive to warrant.a mitigation of the sentences. We affirm the…