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Entrapment is when someone is convinced by a law enforcement agent to do something they wouldn’t normally do. That’s the key. The cops open up a shop for something completely illegal, you decide to walk in and buy whatever they purport to sell, straight to jail, not entrapment.
An undercover cop says “hey, we should go do X crime” “I don’t know man, pretty sure that’s illegal, I don’t want to do it” “nah it’ll be fine, you won’t do it, no balls, I’ll give you a huge cut”, that’s entrapment.
Typing these out, “entrapment” is not the most descriptive term, because the fake storefront is certainly a trap, but it’s not legal entrapment.
You are definitely right. I’m a little tipsy but would like to convince myself that I did already know that. I’ll add an edit to my fist comment to alert readers I had it wrong
Points for effort, but you still have it wrong.
Entrapment is when someone is convinced by a law enforcement agent to do something they wouldn’t normally do. That’s the key. The cops open up a shop for something completely illegal, you decide to walk in and buy whatever they purport to sell, straight to jail, not entrapment.
An undercover cop says “hey, we should go do X crime” “I don’t know man, pretty sure that’s illegal, I don’t want to do it” “nah it’ll be fine, you won’t do it, no balls, I’ll give you a huge cut”, that’s entrapment.
Typing these out, “entrapment” is not the most descriptive term, because the fake storefront is certainly a trap, but it’s not legal entrapment.
You are definitely right. I’m a little tipsy but would like to convince myself that I did already know that. I’ll add an edit to my fist comment to alert readers I had it wrong