Witch Doctors and Battleship Stalkers: The Edges of Exculpation in Entrapment Cases

The bumbling criminal has long been humorous to the law-abiding. Take, for example, a man recently intent on robbing a bank. The man entered a Bank of America bank, grabbed a deposit slip, and wrote on it This iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag. ' While waiting in line for a teller, he...

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