UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. SHANE ELLIOTT HARE, a/k/a “Play”
US v. GREGORY ANTOINE WILLIAMS, a/k/a “J”
US v. ANTONIO EDWARDS, a/k/a “Tank”
US Court of Appeals For the 4th Circuit, Floyd, Filed April 19, 2016,
Entrapment – Outrageous Conduct – No outrageous conduct where ATF sting involved contacting a known armed drug-trafficker who then recruited a robbery crew targeting a fake drug house with a supposed 10-15 kilograms of cocaine inside.

(Concur by Shedd – “[n]ot troubled” by the ATF’s use of undercover officers and a fake drug house to set up a sting operation on robbery crew)

The defendants made a number of claims, including:
– that they were entitled to discovery with regard to racial targeting of defendants (statistical evidence of disproportionate impact was insufficient to generate issue, as no evidence that other groups were similarly situated and bypassed)
– that they were improperly convicted of possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime or crime-of-violence (court held no legal issue)