| United States. Food and Drug Administration - 1959 - 1068 pages
...law-enforcement officials. * * * To determine whether entrapment has been established, a line must lie dnn between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the UBW-" criminal. "We shall now consider the evidence which it is claimed by the Gove! sustains the conviction... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1958 - 876 pages
...the creative activity" of law-enforcement officials. (Emphasis supplied.) See 287 US, at 441, 451. To determine whether entrapment has been established,...innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal. The prin1 The charge to the jury was not in issue here. 369 Opinion of the Court. ciples by which the courts... | |
| Gerhard Leibholz - 1979 - 732 pages
...the creative activity« of law-enforcement officials. (Emphasis supplied). See 287 US, at 441, 451. To determine whether entrapment has been established,...innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal. The principles by which the courts are to make this determination were outlined in Sorrells. On the one... | |
| Peter Alcorn, Peter Zahra, Robert Arden - 1993 - 260 pages
...sufficient to constitute a case of entrapment. To use the language of an American case on the subject, "a line must be drawn between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal" (Sherman v United States 356 US 369 (1958) at 372-3). Gleeson CJ in Sloane said that: In an application... | |
| John Kleinig - 1996 - 350 pages
...innocent defendants. The purpose of the defense, according to Chief Justice Warren, is to draw a line "between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal."7 Where the "disposition" to commit the alleged offense has been "implanted" in the mind... | |
| H. Richard Uviller - 1996 - 362 pages
...they were subjected to government persuasion. In a famous phrase, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote: “To determine whether entrapment has been established, a line must be drawn between a trap for the unwary innocent and a trap for the unwary criminal.” In other words, only the pure... | |
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