Kenneth Eaglin v. George C. Welborn, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of Illinois

POSNER, Chief Judge.

We granted rehearing en banc in this ha-beas corpus matter to consider whether to overrule Whipple v. Duckworth, 957 F.2d 418 (7th Cir.1992), on which the district judge and the panel had relied in deciding that the petitioner was entitled to a new trial. 41 F.3d 268 (7th Cir.1994). The panel reasoned that a common law rule in force in Illinois, People v. Gillespie, 136 Ill.2d 496, 145 Ill.Dec. 915, 557 N.E.2d 894 (1990), forbidding a defendant to raise a defense of entrapment without admitting that he committed the crime that he claims to have been entrapped into…