On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:21:20 +0100, andrel wrote:

>>   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?
> 
> Yes, at least in the US.

Not as I understand it.  I have a cousin who's a sheriff's deputy, 
though, and I could ask him if he could explain the difference - but from 
having talked shop with him before, I'm pretty sure my earlier 
description is what he'd respond with.

It basically is a question of whose choice it was to commit the actual 
crime being charged.  In the case of an undercover cop selling drugs, the 
buyer has the option to walk away from the deal.

Jim

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