TCA 39-11-505
Entrapment
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What does this charge mean?
This is a legal defense (not a crime itself) that says you should not be punished if a police officer or their agent tricked or pressured you into committing a crime that you wouldn't have committed otherwise. To use this defense, you must notify the prosecutor in advance that you plan to claim entrapment, similar to how you'd notify them about an insanity defense.
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It is a defense to prosecution that law enforcement officials, acting either directly or through an agent, induced or persuaded an otherwise unwilling person to commit an unlawful act when the person was not predisposed to do so. If a defendant intends to rely on the defense of entrapment, the defendant shall give to the district attorney general a notice comparable to that required for an insanity defense under Rule 12.2 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure.
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TCA Section39-11-505