United States v. Angela Nolan-Cooper

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

In United States v. Twigg, 588 F.2d 373 (3d Cir.1978), we sustained a defendant’s claim that the government’s investigatory misconduct was so egregious that the due process clause demanded dismissal of the indictment against him. This holding was predicated on a pair of Supreme Court cases that appeared to recognize such a defense, United States v. Russell, 411 U.S. 423, 93 S.Ct. 1637, 36 L.Ed.2d 366 (1973), and Hampton v. United States, 425 U.S. 484, 96 S.Ct. 1646, 48 L.Ed.2d 113 (1976). In contrast to some other circuits which have never recognized…