federal criminal law (entrapment)

Question 0

Permitted inducements

Answer 0

Use of decoys, payments of reasonable amounts of money, assistance in facilitating the commission of the crime by providing equipment or supplies.

Question 1

Entrapment

Answer 1

Occurs when the criminal activity is induced by government officers.

Occurs in the forms of persuasion, fraudulent representations, threats, coercive tactics, harassment, promise of reward, or pleas based upon need, sympathy or friendship.

Question 2

Prohibited inducements

Answer 2

• Threats against family
• Extreme appeals to target sympathy or emotions
• offers of unreasonable amounts of money to an improvised or financially desperate target
• continuous pressure such as repeated phone calls, visits or requests, repeated insistence, badgering.

Question 3

Predisposition

Answer 3

Means that the criminal defendant is presently ready and willing to commit the crime. It is a state of mind that readily responds to the opportunity furnished by the government or its agents to commit the offense.