The Reverse Sting

A man who had once been a major drug dealer met an old supplier. The supplier was now secretly working for the government. With an undercover agent, he offered the man a deal: about 170,000 dollars in cash for a car holding one hundred kilograms of cocaine. The man showed up to do the exchange and was arrested. His defence was entrapment. He said the government, through the informant, talked him into a crime he was not otherwise ready to commit. The law asks whether he was already predisposed to do it.