Entrapment is when you motivate someone to commit a crime that they would not have otherwise committed.
In this case, this guy went looking for a contract killer and the police answered his request.
Re:Free Ross Ulbricht
by missingrib on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:07PM
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He would not have committed the crime if the FBI hadn't set up the fake persona that was allegedly going to get caught and get Ulbright arrested and charged with a life sentence.
"In R v Looseley; Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 2000) [2002] 1 Cr. App. R. 29, the House of Lords held that although entrapment is not a substantive defence in English law, where an accused can show entrapment, the court may stay the proceedings as an abuse of the court's process or it may exclude evidence pursuant to Section 78 PACE 1984 ...
"Police conduct which brings about state-created crime is unacceptable and improper, and to prosecute in such circumstances would be an affront to the public conscience."
- https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/abuse-process