entrapment
Coerced into crime
Entrapment is the act of luring someone into a compromising situation, especially when law enforcement induces a person to commit a crime they wouldn't otherwise have committed.
It serves as a legal defense: The defendant claimed entrapment, arguing the undercover officer pressured him into the sale.
More broadly, entrapment describes any situation where someone is tricked or manipulated into a trap.
Sharp wound from insect
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- inducementMotivating factor or offer
- incriminationSuggesting someone's guilt
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
prosecution · testimony · evidence · plea · misconduct · arrest · conviction · suspect
snare
Device for catching prey
web · pitfall · ambush · decoy · hook · cage · noose · deadfall · gin · quicksand
sting
Sharp wound from insect
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- inducementMotivating factor or offer
- incriminationSuggesting someone's guilt
acquittal · prosecution · testimony · evidence · plea · misconduct · arrest · conviction · suspect · defendant
ruse
Deliberate act of deception
maneuver · stratagem · setup · con · scam · swindle · deception · subterfuge · manipulation · frame-up
stuck
Unable to move
bind · quandary · dilemma · impasse · stalemate · conundrum · plight · deadlock · boxed-in · no-win
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- dirty trickscheating, lying, deceit, trickery, deception
- Criminal Defensedefense attorney, defense lawyer, defense strategy, defense team, defense witness
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- industrial accidentsindustrial accident, explosion, factory fire, mine explosion, mine disaster
- Legal mythsMiranda rights, undercover cops, castle doctrine, double jeopardy, insanity plea
entrapmentvoluntary action
Deed done by choice
free will · predisposition · criminal intent · mens rea · premeditation
entrapmentliberation
Release from constraint
release · freedom · escape · emancipation · deliverance