Lead Us Not into (Unwarranted) Temptation: A Proposal to Replace the Entrapment Defense with a Reasonable-Suspicion Requirement
1985; University of Pennsylvania Law School; Volume: 133; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3311996
ISSN1942-8537
Autores Tópico(s)Legal and Constitutional Studies
ResumoThe use of stings and scams to root out vice and corruption has received renewed interest in the last five years with the revelations of Abscam in 19801 and, more recently, the acquittal of bankrupt auto magnate John Z. DeLorean in his celebrated cocaine trial.'DeLorean and some of the Abscam defendants claimed entrapment, a doctrine under which the defendant, although in fact guilty of the crime for which an indictment has been secured, nevertheless seeks acquittal on the theory that the police have induced the commission of a crime that would not have been committed otherwise.'DeLorean prevailed on the entrapment defense, 4 but all of the Abscam defendants were convicted. 5dismissal and reinstating jury conviction), cert.denied, 104
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