1.14: Is Entrapment Legal?
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This article is from the Lawful Arrest/Search/Seizure FAQ, by Ahimsa Dhamapada ahimsa@mu.clarityconnect.net with numerous contributions by others.
1.14: Is Entrapment Legal?
Certainly not morally proper, if not clearly illegal!
Entrapment, also called sting operations, are crimes
where the law enforcement officals themselves create the
circumstances of the crime. The police place ads in Soldier of Fortune
magazine claiming to be assasains for hire. They pose as drug dealers,
and drug buyers; as prostitutes and "johns"; they pose as 14 year old girls
in Internet chat rooms, each trying to lure someone into the crime of
*asking* someone to do something nasty.
Note that these "crimes" *may not have occured* had not the
police created the circumstances of the crime, set the bait,
played the part of the snake in the garden and used tempatation
to cause the sin. These "crimes" CERTAINLY would not have occured
in the same way.
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