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Noun Concept
Categories: Abuse of the legal system, Criminal justice ethics, Entrapment, Blackmail
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entrapment  entrap  Entrapping  Entrappment  legal entrapment
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A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials WordNet 3.0
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A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a "crime" that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit. Wikipedia
Legal practice Wikidata
Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime. OmegaWiki
Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime. Wiktionary (translation)
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A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment. Wiktionary
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procedural defense
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entrap, Entrapping, Entrappment, legal entrapment, predisposition (law), Provocteur

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