Criminal Law-Entrapment
Entrapment is a much more difficult defense. The purpose of the entrapment defense is to prevent the government from manufacturing a crime. An undercover police officer who offers to purchase narcotics from someone who he or she believes to be a pusher is not guilty of entrapment. However, an undercover police officer who applies immense pressure to a suspect to sell him or her narcotics by establishing a friendship with him or her and then playing on that friendship to overcome that person’s unwillingness to sell narcotics probably would be guilty of entrapment.
The purpose of the entrapment defense is to prevent the government from manufacturing a crime.
