Entrapment.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9–9 (401 sections).
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case 98 Wash. 2d 484 - State v. McCullum (1983)
Most recently applied in State v. Arbogast (March 2022)
1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.16.070.
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) In any prosecution for a crime, it is a defense that:
(a) The criminal design originated in the mind of law enforcement officials, or any person acting under their direction, and
(b) The actor was lured or induced to commit a crime which the actor had not otherwise intended to commit.
(2) The defense of entrapment is not established by a showing only that law enforcement officials merely afforded the actor an opportunity to commit a crime.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.