227 N.C. App. 170 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Entrapment is the inducement of one to commit a crime not contemplated by him, for the mere purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution against him. To be entitled to an instruction on entrapment, the defendant must produce some credible evidence tending to support the defendant's contention that he was a victim of entrapment, as that term is known to the law. The evidence is to be viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant. The entrapment defense consists of two elements: (1) acts of persuasion, trickery or fraud carried out by law enforcement officers or their agents to induce a defendant to commit a crime, and (2) when the criminal design originated in the minds of the government officials, rather than with the innocent defendant, such that the crime is the product of the creative activity of the law enforcement authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McAlister