At least under US law, you could argue that, but the judge would shut you down. Police can absolutely go around offering you drugs and arrest you if you accept, because they’re not convincing or coercing you into doing it, you’re doing it of your own free will.
Italy seems to agree with your argument a bit more, so we’ll see how this pans out.
John DeLorean had a very high profile cocaine trafficking case where he successfully defended himself at trial due to entrapment as the FBI created the situation where DeLorean committed a crime
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At least under US law, you could argue that, but the judge would shut you down. Police can absolutely go around offering you drugs and arrest you if you accept, because they’re not convincing or coercing you into doing it, you’re doing it of your own free will.
Italy seems to agree with your argument a bit more, so we’ll see how this pans out.
John DeLorean had a very high profile cocaine trafficking case where he successfully defended himself at trial due to entrapment as the FBI created the situation where DeLorean committed a crime