{"id":689,"date":"2012-10-19T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=689"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:02:00","slug":"39-you-were-tricked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"39. You Were Tricked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-690\" title=\"Entrapment19\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment19.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment19-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69df26e5487412043552199' value='69df26e5487412043552199'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69df26e5487412043552199' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69df26e5487412043552199' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69df26e5487412043552199' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped! <br \/>Entrapment pg 19: Entrapment is Trickery<\/p>\n<p>Note, however, that Entrapment does not mean the police\u00a0<em>forced<\/em> you to commit the offense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Police officer dressed as a clown, spraying water from a plastic flower in his lapel in Average Joe&#8217;s face<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>CLOWN COP<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s more that they\u00a0<strong>tricked<\/strong> you into it.<\/p>\n<p>Entrapment is an &#8220;excuse&#8221; defense, where you had a choice, but you never would have chosen as you did if the police hadn&#8217;t changed your mind.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe in his professor hat again<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is a &#8220;subjective&#8221; approach, asking whether the defendant\u00a0<strong>herself<\/strong> was already predisposed to commit the crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s all about fairness to\u00a0<strong>this<\/strong> particular person who&#8217;s being accused.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scholastic Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But be aware that a few states use an &#8220;objective&#8221; approach\u2014asking instead whether the police action would have corrupted\u00a0<strong>any<\/strong> law-abiding citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Instead of fairness, this approach is all about deterring bad police conduct.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69df26e5487412043552199' 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-689","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\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}