Deck 22: Entrapment

Question 1

Which of the following best describes entrapment?

A) It is a way police officers can take advantage of a suspect.
B) It is a defense in criminal law that questions the propriety of police action.
C) It is a form of employee fraud.
D) It is a defense used by the police to explain an act of dishonesty.

Answer 1

It is a defense in criminal law that questions the propriety of police action.

Question 2

Entrapment is defined as the actions of government officials with the goal of ________ to induce a person to commit a crime that was not contemplated by the person.

A) Monetary gain
B) Publicity
C) Criminal prosecution
D) Civil prosecution

Answer 2

Criminal prosecution

Question 3

The ________ entrapment test focuses on a defendant's predisposition, and holds that entrapment exists only if the accused had no predisposition to commit the offense but did so because of inducement by the government agent.

A) Reasonable
B) Unreasonable
C) Subjective
D) Objective

Answer 3

Subjective

Question 4

The ________ entrapment test focuses on the conduct of the government agent by asking: Were the activities of the government agent so instigative that they could well have induced an innocent person to commit the crime?

A) Reasonable
B) Unreasonable
C) Subjective
D) Objective

Question 5

In which of the following decisions did the Court rule that there is entrapment if the government induces an individual to commit a crime that he or she otherwise would not have committed?

A) United States v. Russell
B) United States v. Leon
C) Sherman v. United States
D) Weeks v. United States

Question 6

The current ________ view on the entrapment defense rejects the predisposition test and focuses solely on the conduct of the government. If the conduct of the government is outrageous, the accused is entitled to the entrapment defense.

A) Reasonable
B) Unreasonable
C) Majority
D) Minority

Question 7

The factual issue of whether the defendant was actually entrapped is a question of ________, not a question of ________.

A) Law/fact
B) Fact/law
C) Trust/fact
D) Fact/trust

Question 8

If entrapment evidence is brought into trial, who decides whether police actions would have induced a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime?

A) The judge
B) The prosecutor
C) The jury
D) The defense attorney

Question 9

Who has the burden of proving that entrapment occurred?

A) The defendant
B) The police
C) The prosecutor
D) The victim

Question 10

A person entrapped is guilty of a criminal offense.

Question 11

The entrapment test that courts use is typically determined by the criminal code.

Question 12

The objective test holds that entrapment exists only if the accused had no predisposition to commit the offense but did so because of inducement by a government agent.

Question 13

Implanting in defendant's mind the desire to commit a criminal act leads to a valid entrapment defense.

Question 14

Merely affording opportunities or facilities for the commission of the act does not lead to a valid entrapment defense.

Question 15

Supplying one of the necessary ingredients for the manufacture of a prohibited drug constitutes entrapment.

Question 16

There is entrapment when a government informant supplies heroin to a suspect who is predisposed to commit the crime.