Jim Henderson wrote:
> If the person is given no choice in committing the crime, then it's
> entrapment.  If the cop says to the second party "kill that guy or I kill
> you" and then arrests the second party, that's entrapment.  If the second
> party has a reasonable chance of declining to participate, then it's not.

I don't think that's right. Even if you have the right to decline to buy 
drugs, but the (undercover unidentified cop) insists repeatedly in getting 
you to buy, that may be enough to call it entrapment.

Without the ability to test alternate realities, it's hard to know whether 
you'd have committed the crime otherwise or not.

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