505.010 Entrapment.
(1) A person is not guilty of an offense arising out of proscribed conduct when:
(a) He was induced or encouraged to engage in that conduct by a public servant or
by a person acting in cooperation with a public servant seeking to obtain <br>evidence against him for the purpose of criminal prosecution; and
(b) At the time of the inducement or encouragement, he was not otherwise
disposed to engage in such conduct.
(2) The relief afforded by subsection (1) is unavailable when:
(a) The public servant or the person acting in cooperation with a public servant
merely affords the defendant an opportunity to commit an offense; or
(b) The offense charged has physical injury or the threat of physical injury as one
(1) of its elements and the prosecution is based on conduct causing or <br>threatening such injury to a person other than the person perpetrating the <br>entrapment.
(3) The relief provided a defendant by subsection (1) is a defense.
Effective: January 1, 1975 <br>History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 43, effective January 1, 1975.
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