Entrapment
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Heritage v. State (1996)
Most recently applied in 2024 Ark. App. 470 - Edward Chambers v. State of Arkansas (October 2024)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 209; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-209.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) It is an affirmative defense that the defendant was entrapped into committing an offense.
(2) Entrapment occurs when a law enforcement officer or any person acting in cooperation with a law enforcement officer induces the commission of an offense by using persuasion or other means likely to cause a normally law-abiding person to commit the offense.
(3) Conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute entrapment.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.