289 Pa. Super. 163 - Commonwealth v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 1989
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Bollenbach v. United States · Starr v. United States
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“present codification of entrapment [§ 313] finds its origin in Mr. Justice Frankfurter's concurring opinion in Sherman....” Commonwealth v. Jones, supra, 242 Pa.Super. at 311 , 363 A.2d at 1285 . The objective test set forth there”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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