In the US, the legal standard to use entrapment as a defense requires you to show 1) inducement (as opposed to mere solicitation) to commit the crime AND 2) tha

In the US, the legal standard to use entrapment as a defense requires you to show 1) inducement (as opposed to mere solicitation) to commit the crime AND 2) that you were not predisposed to commit the crime. https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... So entrapment basically means you were coaxed into a committing a crime that you weren't predisposed to commit. So if an undercover FBI agent becomes your best friend and begs you, who are not in the business of selling drugs or any contraband, to help them score some cocaine, that's entrapment. But if they just become a business associate of yours and ask you to help them source some stolen goods and you say yes, that's not entrapment because it's probably just solicitation, not inducement. Or say you're out there slinging cocaine on a corner and an undercover cop walks up to you, but you smell something fishy and turn him down, but then he begs you to help him because he really needs his fix and is going nuts, and you give in and sell to him. That sounds like inducement but you were already predisposed to commit that crime, so no entrapment defense for you probably.