Entrapment

Entrapment is the employment of ways and means in order to trap or capture a lawbreaker.[27] Instigation presupposes that the criminal intent to commit an offense originated from the inducer and not the accused who had no intention to commit the crime and would not have committed it were it not for the initiatives by the inducer.[28] In entrapment, the criminal intent or design to commit the offense charged originates in the mind of the accused; the law enforcement officials merely facilitate the apprehension of the criminal by employing ruses and schemes.[29]

http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2011/february2011/178060.htm

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