(January 21, 2016 at 4:43 pm)Divinity Wrote:(January 21, 2016 at 4:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Sounds like a classic case of "entrapment."
Doesn't sound anything like entrapment. As my daughter-in-law (who is a defense attorney) says -- most people misunderstand what entrapment is. Entrapment requires persuasion or coercion. Just providing the opportunity is perfectly legal for law enforcement to do. Otherwise sting operations and undercover police work and such would be fuck all useless.
Not quite. Years ago, in the state of Maryland, it was considered entrapment for a cop to shoot a radar gun from a hidden spot. I know because the cop who gave me a ticket back in 1992 for speeding, was no where to be seen and when I took it to court, he admitted that he was not in a location that was visible to oncoming cars. He got reprimanded by the judge and every person he pulled over that night, got their tickets dismissed. Hiding is not persuasion, nor is it coercion. It is entrapment to set up radar where the cop car is not visible from the road.
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