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inlawrev-2543	Maloy, James P.	ABSCAM: Time for the United States Supreme Court to Clarify the Due Process Defense	1983	30	.pdf	application/pdf	14285	631	57	The court reversed the defendant's conviction because it found that the degree of DEA involvement with the criminal enterprise was so outrageous that due process principles foreclosed any prosecution.59 Although Twigg seems to hold that the government violates due proc- ess when it instigates a crime without any probable cause to believe that the defendant is already involved in criminal activity, an over- whelming majority of federal courts reach a contrary result.60 There- fore, Twigg remains valid authority only for the narrower holding that due process is violated when the government instigates a crime without probable cause and provides extensive assistance to the criminal to complete the crime.61 Because the probable cause factor has been discounted in this area, the emphasis is obviously on whether the government's participation rose to the level of outrageous assistance. [Vol. 16:581 due process defense will ever be extended successfully to crimes of political corruption.	cache/inlawrev-2543.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2543.txt