{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-505.010","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 505.010","heading":"Entrapment.","body":"(1) A person is not guilty of an offense arising out of proscribed conduct when:\n(a) He was induced or encouraged to engage in that conduct by a public servant or\nby a person acting in cooperation with a public servant seeking to obtain\nevidence against him for the purpose of criminal prosecution; and\n(b) At the time of the inducement or encouragement, he was not otherwise\ndisposed to engage in such conduct.\n(2) The relief afforded by subsection (1) is unavailable when:\n(a) The public servant or the person acti ng in cooperation with a public servant\nmerely affords the defendant an opportunity to commit an offense; or\n(b) The offense charged has physical injury or the threat of physical injury as one\n(1) of its elements and the prosecution is based on conduct cau sing or\nthreatening such injury to a person other than the person perpetrating the\nentrapment.\n(3) The relief provided a defendant by subsection (1) is a defense.","path":["KRS Chapter 505"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19695","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:00Z","sha256":"7b188204eca5f6f66c5b54737efcbb49228c0d930e91979e5f5dce5724c9af82","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-504.150","next":"us-ky/krs-505.020"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}