The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped!
Entrapment pg 18: The State Cannot FORCE You to Get YOURSELF in Trouble
Counsel explains why Cora is wrong
COUNSEL
Because you would have done it with someone else.
The issue isn’t whether you would have done it that time, but whether you’d have ever done it at all.
Entrapment is concerned with whether the police (the State) corrupted you to commit a crime you weren’t otherwise inclined to commit.
The State raising a finger as she explains
THE STATE
A common theme you’re going to come across in American criminal law is that we don’t like the State to override your free will, and force you to get yourself in trouble.
Average Joe doing some serious foreshadowing
AVERAGE JOE
Just wait ’til we cover confessions and searches (in Criminal Procedure).
