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.
