Origin Developed in American criminal law from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries onward.
Entrapment is a criminal law doctrine and defense under which a defendant who was induced by a law enforcement officer or agent to commit an offense they would not otherwise have committed may avoid conviction. It is generally defined as the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of that officer or agent; jurisdictions differ on whether the defendant or the prosecution bears the burden of proof once the defense is raised.
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Origin PeriodDeveloped in American criminal law from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries onward. 1 Core PrincipleA defendant induced to commit a crime by a law enforcement officer's trickery, persuasion or fraud, who would not otherwise have committed it, has a defense to the resulting charge. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Entrapment (Wikipedia)
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the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer or state agent.
1. Entrapment (Wikipedia)
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