The following excerpt is from United States v. Temkin, No. 12-50103, No. 12-50136 (9th Cir. 2015):
United States v. Mejia, 559 F.3d 1113, 1116 (9th Cir. 2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). The district court correctly found predisposition. While we review entrapment,
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a matter of law, de novo, we defer to credibility determinations made by the factfinder, unless, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, no reasonable factfinder could have concluded the defendant was either predisposed or not induced to commit the charged offenses. See United States v. Si, 343 F.3d 1116, 1124-25 (9th Cir. 2003).
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