If he meets that burden, the prosecution must then prove that he was predisposed to commit the crime, which it can do in any number of ways.
The prosecutors sought to show that Mr. Williams and Mr. Feinberg were "predisposed" to commit illegal acts in the immigration and titanium-mining matters.
Both men focused on the notion of "predisposition": whether the defendants were predisposed to commit a crime, or entrapped by the government.
Mr. Monaco, the 30-year-old jury foreman, who sells and installs security systems, said late last night that the jurors concluded that the defendants had been "predisposed" to commit what the prosecution had charged were criminal offenses.
If Mr. Cromitie was predisposed to commit a terrorist act, Mr. Briccetti argued, he would not have disappeared, he would have recruited other terrorists, "he would have come up with some plan of action".
Although Judge Jacobs said it might have been "a close call" for a jury to have concluded that Mr. Kassar and his co-defendants, Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy and Tareq Mousa al-Ghazi, were predisposed to commit their crimes, "it was a call for the jury to make".
That statement, of course, is incorrect because, as stated in the text above, the payment must be "for the performance of his official duties". Petitioner argued to the jury, at least with respect to the extortion count, that he had been entrapped, see App. 20; however, in light of the jury's verdict on that issue, we must assume that he was predisposed to commit the crime.
The police report narrates the incident this way: "The defendant revealed she was predisposed to commit a crime by asking [undercover officer's name redacted from report] if he was a 'cop.'..
If Ms. Mosby is claiming that all six officers engaged in criminal acts against Mr. Gray without preplanning or coordination, it seems to suggest that her opinion is that there is a culture of abuse in the Baltimore Police Department so pervasive that every officer who was involved in this particular arrest and transportation of Mr. Gray was predisposed to commit serious crimes.
On the basis of the news reports, more and more people began to believe that the Mexican American youths, particularly the zoot-suiters, were predisposed to committing crime.
