Clipper and Entrapment!

[Wrongway]

Jonathan Scott Mallin wrote:

>I am not saying that I believe this argument.. it is, however, one that 
>can be made.

No, it isn't.  Entrapment isn't simply a matter of law enforcement
having something to do with a crime.  In order to use entrapment as a
defense you would have to prove that the cops went to extraordinary
measures to get you to commit a crime that you wouldn't have committed
anyway.  You'd have to prove that you had no tendency towards the type
of crime and/or that you wouldn't have had opportunity to commit it.

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