{"data":{"id":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-777.201","jurisdiction":"us-fl","citation":"Fla. Stat. § 777.201","heading":"Entrapment.","body":"(1) A law enforcement officer, a person engaged in cooperation with a law enforcement officer, or a person acting as an agent of a law enforcement officer perpetrates an entrapment if, for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of a crime, he or she induces or encourages and, as a direct result, causes another person to engage in conduct constituting such crime by employing methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such crime will be committed by a person other than one who is ready to commit it.\n(2) A person prosecuted for a crime shall be acquitted if the person proves by a preponderance of the evidence that his or her criminal conduct occurred as a result of an entrapment. The issue of entrapment shall be tried by the trier of fact.\nHistory.—s. 42, ch. 87-243; s. 1196, ch. 97-102.","path":["CHAPTER 777 PRINCIPAL; ACCESSORY; ATTEMPT; SOLICITATION; CONSPIRACY"],"source_url":"https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute\u0026URL=0700-0799/0777/0777.html","current_through":"2026 Florida Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:14:21Z","sha256":"0cfbc55b1842a891c9c99ebfb04fc49468ea885b1b54ba4358afd79e761df66e","source_id":"us-fl","stale":false,"prev":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-777.04","next":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-782.02"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}