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Re:The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater s... by thatcat on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:35PM (#11880233)
Entrapment is when a LEO induces a person to commit a crime that they were previously not disposed to commit. Therefore, if the person has shown no inclination to commit a crime, then it seems that coercion could be a subtype of entrapment.

However, when criminal informants are used rather than LEO's to perform the coercion, that wouldn't be entrapment .

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Re:The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater s... by dragonwriter on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:51PM (#11880375)
> However, when criminal informants are used rather than LEO's to perform the coercion, that wouldn't be entrapment .

An LEO using a "criminal informant" as an intermediary agent to coerce a target into committing a crime is still an LEO inducing the person to commit the crime.

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