State v. Garcia

Given Garcia's misunderstanding of the review standard, he did not challenge as clearly erroneous any of the district court's factual findings. We will rely on those findings and limit our de novo review to whether the district court properly applied the law to the facts in concluding that Garcia failed to meet his burden to raise the entrapment defense.

The district court erred in applying the law to the facts. The district court concluded that Garcia "did not meet the burden of showing by a preponderance of the evidence that the government agent here entrapped him into committing the crime…