Entrapment

[doktor at primenet.com]

EMily writes:

>Re: The concern over sting operations.  If the FBI's going to pose as an
>11 year old kid and try to draw innocent p-listers into illegal propositions,
>it most likely would constitute entrapment, a defense to prosecution
>theoretically available in every federal court except the 6th Circuit.
>However, I'm just a law student, so please don't sue me if I'm wrong

Good point, EMily.  I would only add that no one knows if entrapment is a
defense to CDA violations.  You won't study this in law school, but in "The
Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce defined "lawful" as meaning "consistent
with the will of a magistrate having jurisdiction."  (I'm quoting from
memory, so sue if if that's not exactly it.)

--Jimmy

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