Warp wrote:
>   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).

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Basically, if he 
says "I'm a cop, and this is OK, I authorize you to do this", then it would 
be entrapment.

That's my understanding, but as I said, I have nothing more than heresay 
recollections about this, etc.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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