United States Second Circuit

District courts have discretion to grant or deny a downward departure from the Sentencing Guidelines for imperfect entrapment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2000
• Published 12/28/2000

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge, and KEARSE and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Shechtman (Nathaniel Z. Marmur, on the brief), Stillman & Friedman, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Kantilal Patel., Barbara D. Cottrell, Assistant United States Attorney, (Daniel J. French, United States Attorney, Kevin P. Dooley, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Appellee.