According to the rules, which defense involves police trickery that leads to the commission of a crime?

• A. Necessity
• B. Duress
• C. Self-defense
• D. Entrapment

Answer: (D)

Entrapment is a defense that rests on police trickery or persistent pressure designed to induce you to commit a crime you would not have chosen to commit on your own. The key idea is that the crime happened because law enforcement steered you into it, not because you had criminal intent from the start. That’s why this option fits best when the question describes police deception leading you to break the law.

Think of it this way: necessity involves proving you did the crime to avoid a greater harm, and duress involves being forced to commit the crime due to a threat from another person. Self-defense protects you when you’re responding to an imminent threat yourself. None of those focus on police inducement; entrapment specifically targets that conduct by authorities and whether you were predisposed to commit the act anyway. If you would have gone ahead with the crime without the police pressure, entrapment typically isn’t available as a defense; if the police induced you to commit the crime, it may be a valid entrapment defense.