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Re:The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater s... by dragonwriter on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:31AM (#11877069)
> You can certainly coerce someone into that by threatening their life or their family, but that's not entrapment.

All coercion by law enforcement to commit a crime is entrapment, and entrapment includes a number of things that are not, strictly, coercion.

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Re:The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater s... by zaroth on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:00PM (#11879010)
The term I was searching for is duress. I think duress (involving a lack of consent) is distinct from entrapment. Duress requires an immediate and inescapable threat of serious bodily harm, worse than the harm caused by the crime.

While I agree duress by law enforcement may be a form of entrapment, they are distinct legal defenses with different burdens of proof.

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