entrapment
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State law bars prosecuting people who erroneously end up on the rolls, and if the government later encourages them to vote, there’s an entrapment defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 1999, Judge Stephen Robbins told Alford that although entrapment had played a significant part in the sting, he "willingly went along with the idea".
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
And some of them were entrapment, I would say.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
Even if the jury decided he had, it was a case of entrapment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
The entrapment occurs in three distinct phases, each of which has been explored earlier, but a brief review is useful here.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
City manager Bert Cunningham said the worst damage was east of the town, with as many as four entrapments reported.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
The decades-old trail of paperwork warning about elevator entrapments first came to light in 2001 with a boy’s death in an Otis elevator in Bethel, Maine.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
In a few cases, the changes might seem more stringent, but the intent is actually to avoid penalty entrapments.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 13, 2017
The towns, in Boone’s eyes as in those of many of the Borderer settlers, were rife with legal entrapments and predatory businessmen.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2016
These ice entrapments are a short-term boon for the bears, giving them an easy source of fatty food they can just scoop out of a hole in the ice.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 4, 2015
