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The 2001 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
Crimes
Chapter 777
Principal; Accessory; Attempt; Solicitation; Conspiracy
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Section 777.201, Florida Statutes 2001

777.201  Entrapment.--

(1)  A law enforcement officer, a person engaged in cooperation with a law enforcement officer, or a person acting as an agent of a law enforcement officer perpetrates an entrapment if, for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of a crime, he or she induces or encourages and, as a direct result, causes another person to engage in conduct constituting such crime by employing methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such crime will be committed by a person other than one who is ready to commit it.

(2)  A person prosecuted for a crime shall be acquitted if the person proves by a preponderance of the evidence that his or her criminal conduct occurred as a result of an entrapment. The issue of entrapment shall be tried by the trier of fact.

History.--s. 42, ch. 87-243; s. 1196, ch. 97-102.