Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>>  > Entrapment, though, is something I generally feel should be illegal.
> 
>> Entrapment already is illegal. However, buying drugs from a drug dealer 
>> isn't entrapment.
> 
>> Entrapment is when the cop tells you to do something you know would 
>> otherwise be illegal, then punishes you for it. Entrapment would be a cop 
>> waving you through a red light, then giving you a ticket for going thru a 
>> red light.
> 
>   A cop buying drugs is not entrapment, but a cop *selling* drugs (in order
> to arrest the people who buy them) would be, wouldn't it? Or a cop posing
> as a prostitute to arrest people who try to buy her services (at least in
> places where that's illegal).
> 

Should the police officer posing as a drug dealer take a hesitant
customer, tell them they are a cop and will get busted for buying even
when they haven't, convince the person to buy drugs to do something else
for the cop, and then bust them for buying and what ever else they had
them do; that would be entrapment.

Entrapment is a cop, or another official of the state, convincing a
person to commit a crime by using their position as part of the state to
influence the person. In the case of an undercover cop, no entrapment
because the person is not unduly influenced.

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