562.066. Entrapment.
You can’t be guilty if the police tricked you into committing a crime you weren’t planning to do.
If law enforcement pushes someone to commit a crime they weren’t already willing to do, it may count as entrapment—and the person might not be guilty.
1. A person is not guilty of a crime if they only did it because they were entrapped by police or someone working with police.
2. Entrapment happens when police or someone helping them try to get a person to commit a crime—even though that person wasn’t already ready or willing to do it.
3. This defense doesn’t apply if the crime caused injury or risked injuring someone other than the person doing the entrapment.
4. The defendant must raise the issue of entrapment as part of their defense.
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