Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo...
by jacobreg on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:09AM
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Not quite, it's causing someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit, so it all depends how pushy they were about it. If you could argue they coerced the contractors into doing the work, that's entrapment. But inviting them over under false pretenses and then simply asking them to commit a crime, while of questionable value to the community, isn't entrapment.
Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo...
by kbouck on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:25AM
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a few illustrated examples of what does and does not qualify as entrapment:
Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo...
by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:09AM
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No. There's some sort of legal sophistry that helps them get away with it, and even if there weren't there's always the fall back of qualified immunity.
Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo...
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:35PM
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Entrapment is a defense not an offense, thus immunities on the part of the putative entrapper are immaterial.
Isn't that the definition of entrapment?