In the Matter of Registrant J.R.

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• finding that predisposition is, by definition, the defendant’s state of mind and inclination before exposure to government action
• “government conduct must be truly outrageous before due process will prevent conviction of the defendant.”
• “[T]he defense of entrapment is not available to a predisposed defendant … .”
• “there is no infallible means of divining a defendant’s predisposition after the fact”
• credibility of informant is a question of fact for the jury: “[0]n appeal we are limited to considering whether the evidence established entrapment as a matter of law, which only occurs when the absence of defendant’s predisposition appears from the uncontradicted evidence.”

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