Mike Ryan earns his living selling cocaine to local residents in his neighborhood. He is eating dinner with a man who he thinks is a friend, but the man is really an undercover police officer. When Mike comments that he looking for a new source of cocaine, the officer volunteers to sell Mike some cocaine. This encounter results in Mike being charged with a crime of attempted drug dealing. Can Mike use the entrapment defense to be acquitted? Explain the defense and how it relates to this case.

Mike Ryan earns his living selling cocaine to local residents in his neighborhood. He is eating dinner with a man who he thinks is a friend, but the man is really an undercover police officer. When Mike comments that he looking for a new source of cocaine, the officer volunteers to sell Mike some cocaine. This encounter results in Mike being charged with a crime of attempted drug dealing. Can Mike use the entrapment defense to be acquitted? Explain the defense and how it relates to this case.

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