2002
(inducement for entrapment is government conduct that creates a
substantial
risk that an undisposed person or otherwise law-abiding citizen would
commit
the offense; inducement may take different forms, including pressure,
assurances that a person is not doing anything wrong, persuasion,
fraudulent
representations, threats, coercive tactics, harassment, promises of
reward, or
pleas based on need, sympathy, or friendship).
(inducement for entrapment cannot be shown if government agents
merely
provide the opportunity or facilities to commit the crime or use
artifice and
stratagem).
(a government agent’s repeated requests for drugs do not in and of
themselves constitute the required inducement).
(evidence of drug possession or use to show predisposition to sell
drugs is
questionable; but the Court has stopped short of holding that
possession or use
of drugs is never, under any circumstances, relevant to show
predisposition to
distribute drugs).