{"id":686,"date":"2012-10-19T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=686"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:01:42","slug":"38-entrapment-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"38. Entrapment Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-687\" title=\"Entrapment18\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment18.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment18-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f5dd7519c317056413704' value='69f5dd7519c317056413704'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f5dd7519c317056413704' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f5dd7519c317056413704' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f5dd7519c317056413704' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped! <br \/>Entrapment pg 18: The State Cannot FORCE You to Get YOURSELF in Trouble<\/p>\n<p><em>Counsel explains why Cora is wrong<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>COUNSEL<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Because you would have done it with someone\u00a0<strong>else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The issue isn&#8217;t whether you would have done it\u00a0<strong>that<\/strong> time, but whether you&#8217;d have ever done it at\u00a0<strong>all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entrapment is concerned with whether the police (the State)\u00a0<strong>corrupted<\/strong> you to commit a crime you weren&#8217;t otherwise inclined to commit.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State raising a finger as she explains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A common theme you&#8217;re going to come across in American criminal law is that we don&#8217;t like the State to override your free will, and force you to get\u00a0<strong>yourself<\/strong> in trouble.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe doing some serious foreshadowing<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Just wait &#8217;til we cover confessions and searches (in Criminal Procedure).<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f5dd7519c317056413704' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}