Editing Entrapment (section)

===Federal court===
Federal courts apply a subjective test for claims of entrapment.<ref name="marcus">{{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dabjS4qm0A4C |title=The Entrapment Defense |date=2015 |publisher=LexisNexis |isbn=978-1579115258 |page=118 |access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> In federal criminal prosecutions, if a defendant proves entrapment the defendant may not be convicted of the underlying crime.<ref>{{cite web|title=645. Entrapment—Elements|url=https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements|website=U.S. Attorneys' Manual, Criminal Resource Manual|date=19 February 2015 |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> A valid entrapment defense has two related elements:<ref>{{cite web|title=''Mathews v. United States'', 485 U.S. 58, 63 (1988)|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6366109365110795359|website=Google Scholar|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref>
# government inducement of the crime, and
# the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct.

The federal entrapment defense is based upon statutory construction, the federal courts' interpretation of the will of Congress in passing the criminal statutes.  As this is not a constitutional prohibition, Congress may change or override this interpretation by passing a law.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Roth|first1=Jessica A.|title=The Anomaly of Entrapment|journal=Washington University Law Review|date=2013|volume=91|issue=4|page=1022|url=http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6082&context=law_lawreview|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref>