Blossom, TX Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

The only way you are not going to jail is by hiring an attorney. Fraud is a felony. At least 2 years in prison and up to 20 depending on the amount. A good lawyer will be able to tell your side of things. It is an absolute must that you hire the best lawyer you can afford.

It is both a legal and a customary law enforcment practice for undercover police to instigate and conduct drug deals, and then charge the person from whom they obtained the drugs with a drug offense. However, "entrapment" is a possible defense in certain cases where overzealous law enforcement induce a person to commit a crime. There are two elements to the defense of entrapment: governmental inducement of the crime and a lack of predisposition on the part of the defendant to engage in the criminal conduct. The defendant bears the initial burden at trial of presenting some evidence that the government induced (caused) him to commit the offense. Once the defendant has presented some evidence of inducement, the burden rests on the government to overcome an entrapment defense by proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was "predisposed" to commit the crime. Predisposition focuses on whether the defendant was an "unwary innocent" -- meaning that but for the inducement of the government, he would not have committed the crime. The fact the law enforcement agents merely afford opportunities or facilities for the commission of an offense does not constitute entrapment -- the agents "deception" brings the defense of entrapment into play only when the deception actually implants the criminal design in the defendant's mind.