Opinion ID: 1676101
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Text: For the reasons expressed, we find that, through section 777.201, the Legislature established entrapment as a statutory defense to be evaluated under the federal subjective entrapment test and, by such action, eliminated the objective test we announced in Cruz. As such, we disapprove Bowser v. State, 555 So.2d 879 (Fla.2d DCA 1989). We additionally find that section 777.201 neither prohibits the judiciary from objectively reviewing the issue of entrapment to the extent such a review involves the due process clause of article I, section 9, of the Florida Constitution, nor prohibits the judiciary from determining under the subjective test that, in certain circumstances, entrapment has been established as a matter of law. In this case, we find that, under the subjective test, Manuel Munoz was entrapped as a matter of law. Although the district court in this case correctly noted that section 777.201 abolished the objective entrapment test set forth in Cruz, it did not reach the conclusion that Munoz was nevertheless entrapped as a matter of law. Consequently, we quash the decision of the district court and remand this case with the direction that the trial court's order of dismissal be reinstated. It is so ordered. BARKETT, C.J., and McDONALD, GRIMES and HARDING, JJ., concur. KOGAN, J., concurs with an opinion, in which BARKETT, C.J., concurs. SHAW, J., concurs in result only.