UNITED STATES V. MOHAMUD 31 In sum, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, we cannot say that “no reasonable jury could have concluded that [Mohamud was] predisposed to commit the charged offense[].” Davis, 36 F.3d at 1430. We therefore conclude that the district court properly rejected his defense of entrapment as a matter of law. Mohamud’s alternative argument that we should dismiss this case because the government overreached in its “sting” and violated due process also fails. While the government’s conduct in this case was quite aggressive at times, it fell short of a due process violation. In United States v. Black, we made clear that “[d]ismissing an indictment for outrageous government conduct . . . is limited to extreme cases in which the defendant can demonstrate that the government’s conduct violates fundamental fairness and is so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice.” 733 F.3d 294, 302 (9th Cir. 2013) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). This is an “extremely high standard.” Id.; see also United States v. Pedrin, 797 F.3d 792, 797 (9th Cir. 2015) (“[I]n assessing whether the government’s conduct was ‘outrageous,’ the relevant question is what the government knew when it was setting up the sting, not what it learned later.”). For example, we have denied challenges to sting operations involving armed robberies of phony drug stash houses which necessarily put law enforcement and the defendant in grave peril. See Black, 733 F.3d at 302; Williams, 547 F.3d at 1200–01. Mohamud argues that the six factors for evaluating outrageous

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