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Hampton v. United States (425 U.S. 484 (1976)) is a United States Supreme Court decision on the subject of entrapment. By a 5-3 margin the Court upheld the conviction of a Missouri man for selling heroin even though all the drug sold was supplied to him he claimed by a Drug Enforcement Administration informant who had in turn gotten it from the DEA.