Willing does not indicate intention. Go back to law school, Williams. And take that fake judge with you.
unfortunately the judge is correct about the law. True entrapment you are tricked or forced into a situation without ever intending to commit the crime.
It may not be fair but that’s how it works.
mind readers?...thought control?....
talk is talk and action is action....
how many times have we said things that we had any intention of acting on as in "I could eat a horse"....
Willing does not indicate intention. Go back to law school, Williams. And take that fake judge with you.
It is entrapment if you encourage someone to do something that they have not made any moves towards doing it. Listening to an informant plan and plant a course of action that the listener hadn’t thought of or announced movement on, is entrapment.
That should also include means. If the government puts you together with coconspirators so that you are essentiallly aided, to commit a crime that should be entrapment too.
It’s a point on which the case could turn. Something the prosecution & defense will do battle over.
Lawyers have a language. Words that are synonymous to the general public have somewhat different meanings in the law. I suspect that may be the case here, but I don’t know.