State v. Kaufman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that an objective standard prompts entrapment as a matter of law when “offenses committed were not the product of defendant’s initiative or desire, but were induced by the conduct of the undercover officer”
• finding entrapment where attractive undercover officer, pretending to be divorced mother of six chil dren having hard times, induced defendant against his \initiative or desire\ to buy what she claimed were stolen goods
• entrapment was found when the officer was selling her youth and attractiveness to induce the offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wynia
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-05-09· cited 11×
• State v. Dickerson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-05-05· cited 9×
• State v. Martinez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-02-25· cited 7×
• State v. Torres
  Utah Supreme Court· 2000-12-22· cited 6×
• State v. Hernandez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2020-04-09· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-06-30· cited 3×
• State v. Qayum
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-12-11· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Taylor
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-08-07· cited 39×
• State v. Kourbelas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-11-28· cited 18×
• State v. Sprague
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-03-23· cited 16×
• State v. Cripps
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-10-26· cited 13×