The Illustrated Guide to Law

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!”