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6. Right. The "perjury trap" is an "entrapment defense". In "entrapments" the dependant has in fact...

Fri May 8, 2020, 01:31 PM

May 2020

committed a crime but the defense is that law enforcement caused a crime to occur that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Entrapment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-14/section-1/entrapment

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