Sorrells v. United States

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Sorrells v. United States
by Charles Evans Hughes

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Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (1932), is a Supreme Court|United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court case in which the justices unanimously recognized the entrapment defense. However, while the majority opinion by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes located the key to entrapment in the defendant's predisposition or lack thereof to commit the crime, Owen Josephus Roberts' concurring opinion proposed instead that it be rooted in an analysis of the conduct of the law enforcement agents making the arrest. Although the Court has stuck with predisposition, the dispute has hung over entrapment jurisprudence ever since. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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287 U.S. 435

Sorrells v. United States

Argued: Nov. 8, 1932. --- Decided: Dec 19, 1932

Messrs. A. Hall Johnston and John Y. Jordan, Jr., both of Asheville, N.C., for petitioner.

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The Attorney General and Mr. Thomas D.Thacher, Sol. Gen., of Washington, D.C., for the United States.

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Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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