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Short-Term SCOTUS Win for Democrats, Long Term Worry

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The Defense of Entrapment

The defence raised the defence of entrapment. They said that the fbi tricked the defendants into agreeing to the plot, and the fbi drove the whole thing. And there is science in there that the government can point to to say that you weren't entrapped. That's really based on the fact that the defendants were what they call predisposed to commit the crime. But under the law, if you have that predispos that entrapment is not a valid defence.

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