Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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.

  Wouldn't that mean that the police can lure anybody to do a crime with
impunity as long as they don't identify themselves as the police?

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                                                          - Warp

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