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Have you heard of entrapment?

• KingMob 1mo ago
  IANAL, but I've heard that entrapment defenses are way harder to use, and much rarer, in reality than on TV. First, you frequently require a judge's permission to even argue it. But the real burden is showing that your client would not have committed the crime without the effect of the police. A cop posing as a drug dealer and offering you drugs as you pass them in the park every day doesn't count; a cop hounding you for months to commit wire fraud because they mistakenly believe you're in a criminal org might, though.
• otterley 1mo ago
  Yes. That’s why I added the predicate “crimes they didn’t ask you to commit.”