[goodsamaritan]

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If the NBC crews were working with the police from the beginning there might be entrapment problems.

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Entrapment is a very difficult defense to raise successfully. The defendant must show that he was otherwise unwilling to commit the crime but for the inducement by police officers or their agents. A police officer simply presenting the opportunity to commit a crime is not enough. The officer needs to essentially coerce or scare the defendant into committing the crime.

For example:
- Officer: Wanna buy some crack?
- Defendant: Sure!
Is not entrapment

Similarly:
- 13 y.o. girl: Wanna have sex?
- Defendant: Yes!
Is also not entrapment

But an officer badgering a defendant repeatedly until he buys the crack because he's scared would be entrapment.


In almost all of these To Catch a Predator cases, its pretty clear that the defendants were not unwilling to have sex with underage kids.