What is the test for the defense of entrapment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Romano, 278 F.2d 202 (2nd Cir. 1960):
It is well settled that in order to sustain the defense of entrapment it must appear that the government or someone acting for the government was the initiator of the defendant's illegal acts in the sense of having induced the defendant to do what the defendant would otherwise not have been willing to do. Sorrells v. United States, 1932, 287 U.S. 435, 53 S.Ct. 210, 77 L.Ed. 413.
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