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Definition
law: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tempted or tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
- In the early days, a number of effective men were entrapped in situations that either damaged them personally or ruined their reputations.
- We feared that he would be victimized by character assassins, perhaps even entrapped into this kind of "woman rap."
- We discussed this problem of character assassination and entrapment with Dr. King and Dick Gregory and Whitney Young and other men active in civil rights.
There are no more uses of "entrapment" in Black Like Me.
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