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>> These 118 con men and women were posing as contractors & preying on innocent homeowners > I am almost certain that's not what happened. Right you are: "Wh
by miles 7y ago
>> These 118 con men and women were posing as contractors & preying on innocent homeowners
> I am almost certain that's not what happened.
Right you are:
"When the handyman says no, then the undercover detective moves the conversation to something else and then comes back to the question later in a different way," says Sammis. "By the time the handyman gets to the location, they want to make the homeowner happy and end up agreeing to perform work that they didn't intend on doing when they first arrived. The undercover detective[s] are just creating a crime that probably wouldn't occur otherwise."
- awb 7y ago> The undercover detective[s] are just creating a crime that probably wouldn't occur otherwise. Isn't that the definition of entrapment?
- jacobreg 7y agoNot quite, it's causing someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit, so it all depends how pushy they were about it. If you could argue they coerced the contractors into doing the work, that's entrapment. But inviting them over under false pretenses and then simply asking them to commit a crime, while of questionable value to the community, isn't entrapment.
- kbouck 7y agoa few illustrated examples of what does and does not qualify as entrapment: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633 https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
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- dwnvoted2hell 7y agoThis is absolutely entrapment. Once someone someone has said no once, it becomes badgering. Contractors are not paid like most people. Often, they have to gain the favor of their customer to make sure they are paid on time, or at all. "Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges, and it's based on interaction between police officers and the defendant prior to (or during) the alleged crime. A typical entrapment scenario arises when law enforcement officers use coercion and other overbearing tactics to induce someone to commit a crime."
- fnordfnordfnord 7y agoNo. There's some sort of legal sophistry that helps them get away with it, and even if there weren't there's always the fall back of qualified immunity.
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- dragonwriter 7y agoEntrapment is a defense not an offense, thus immunities on the part of the putative entrapper are immaterial.
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