The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped!
Entrapment pg 29: False Representation
Counsel explaining to Zeke
COUNSEL
And Zeke, if you had gone up to the cops and asked them if it would be okay, and they had said yes, you’d have a defense.
Then they would have entrapped you by their FALSE REPRESENTATION.
ZEKE
Now you tell me.
Anyhoo, that’s that for Entrapment. And that’s the last of the “excuse” defenses.
Average Joe talking head, with a “something’s not right” expression
AVERAGE JOE
Wait…
So next time, we’ll talk about the “Justification” defenses of
Average Joe worriedly interrupts
JOE
WAIT!
What about duress? Isn’t that one of the standard Excuse defenses?
We’ll get into all that next time in Part 13: “I HAD NO CHOICE!”
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