Marin
United States v. Marin
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Defendant David Marin appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss his indictment for outrageous government misconduct and the denial of his motion to suppress evidence due to entrapment. The district court properly concluded that the confidential informant’s actions did not shock the court’s conscience and the district court did not clearly err in refusing to dismiss the indictment under its supervisory powers. The informant’s actions — providing cocaine and using cocaine with Marin — were no more egregious than those in prior cases in which we declined to find a due process violation. See, e.g., United States v. Barrera-Moreno, 951 F.2d 1089, 1091-92 (9th Cir.1991); United States v. Smith, 924 F.2d 889, 897 (9th Cir.1991); United States v. Simpson, 813 F.2d 1462, 1468 (9th Cir.1987). Moreover, switching from a “dirty” informant to a “clean” informant during the course of the transaction is not “so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice[,]” even assuming that such conduct could be attributed to the government. Simpson, 813 F.2d at 1464 (quotation omitted).