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PEOPLE Vs. Dionisio M. Tadepa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. DIONISIO TADEPA y MERIQUILLO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 100354 | 1995-05-26

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

In the apprehension of illegal drug dealers, law enforcers have resorted to entrapment or buy-bust operations where ways are devised and means employed to ensnare and capture the malefactors in flagrante delicto while engaged in their illicit trade. Entrapment has since received judicial sanction as long as it is carried out with legal and constitutional circumspection. 1 It must be distinguished from inducement or instigation where the criminal intent originates from the mind of the instigator and the accused, in effect, is lured into the commission of the offense charged in order to prosecute him. In...