When will a jury accept defendant's entrapment defense?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from The People v. Moore, No. B222022, No. BA353470 (Cal. App. 2011):

Moreover, even in the absence of impeachment with defendant's prior conviction, parole status, and juvenile adjudication, no reasonable juror would have accepted defendant's entrapment defense. As stated, the test for entrapment is whether the law enforcement officer's conduct was such that it was likely to induce a normally law-abiding person to commit the offense. (People v. Barraza, supra, 23 Cal.3d at pp. 689690.) Defendant's apparent contention that a reasonable juror would believe that a normally law-abiding man would be induced to sell marijuana to a woman he did not

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