Is it entrapment when a employee puts a iphone out to be stolen?

IPhone suppose to be locked ab secured behind a counter but it was set under surveillance in public view an a mentally ill person stole it with no prior criminal history an was arrested 3 mos later

Entrapment is a tricky one… That is something to call if like an undercover cop pulls up to a sports car, revs his engine and challenges the guy to a race and the guy takes off at the light the the cop arrests him. It seems very similar in many ways but it doesn't sound like it was intentionally put there for someone to be tempted to steal it. Even doing something like "bait-car" isn't entrapment because it was purely up to the theif to decide to steal it or not. This is deffinately something to call a lawyer about. He might have a case seeing how he is mentally ill.

That guy shouldn't have stolen it, simple as that. It's not like the apple corporation put the iphone in his hand and accused them of stealing. People leave *** out all the time, and people who don't understand that it's not theirs, steal it. I'm not surprised the apple corporation left it out, they probably want to make sure that customers aren't doing anything they shouldn't.

Entrapment only exists when you make the choice to do something illegal.

No. If you want to know what must be proved to set up a case of entrapment, ask that.

It would be different if an employee left out a phone, then went up to someone and said something along the lines of 'that phone looks easy to take and get away with.'

You can put the bait out, you just can't give someone the idea to take the bait.

No this is not entrapment, just because they provided a situation where something COULD be stolen does not mean that they made the person do it. It was still his choice, his idea, and his problem.