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entrapment
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In criminal law, entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit. It is a conduct that is generally discouraged and thus, in many jurisdictions, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And the murder suspect himself, whom Lucy seduced to secure a confession, only to have the case dismissed for entrapment . ▪ In 1969 the Home Office distributed a circular to police forces advising against the use of entrapment ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being entrapped. 2 (context legal English) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime. 3 (context chemistry English) A method of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from entrap + -ment . Criminal investigation sense attested by 1896.
Usage examples of entrapment.
The Mrach have lured several threaders such as she into similar entrapment on their worlds.
The group of red lights gets brighter as the Titian Fleet moves further and further into our area of the Milky Way, and we hope to explain how they can defy certain known astrophysical laws, avoiding entrapment by the huge suns they skirt.
But he accepted the confession nonetheless, hearing with mounting anger the skein of the Jesuit's sins: the pair of underpants he had stolen from Soutane that had, apparently, alerted her to the fact that her apartment had been searched, her subsequent entrapment of the priest in the Cours Saleya, his divulging everything he knew of the Forest of Swords, of who he was working for, including Dante's name.
To avoid entrapment, most of the British cavalry and artillery, two regiments of Hessians, and some 3,000 loyalists with their movable property were sent to New York by sea, while the rest of the army—9,000 strong, with a baggage train of 1,500 wagons that extended almost twelve miles—set out on a forced march across New Jersey.
It detailed the gruesome death and media circus surrounding the entrapment of a caver in the 1920s.
Despite much harassment and entrapment, these provisos are quite clearly unenforceable.
They engaged in an entrapment scheme to screw Barbara Graham--wigged out in the women's jail.