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No, they run into the entrapment issue either way. But it's easier to show entrapment with email because the fake emails are recorded. With a phone call, it i
by rprasad 14y ago
No, they run into the entrapment issue either way. But it's easier to show entrapment with email because the fake emails are recorded.
With a phone call, it is not necessarily a given that the call was recorded (as the police may not have had proper gear set up), so it usually becomes a he-said-cop-said problem. Cops usually choose not to record calls unless they need to, because for evidentiary reasons (for the prosecution) it is better to make the dispute one of credibility.
- grecy 14y agoIn the article it's made very clear they entrapped multiple people by faking text messages, that didn't seem to be a problem.
- rprasad 14y agoJournalists do not understand the law very well... In this case, the police hit up a bunch of people they suspected of being the dealer's customers and asked them if they wanted to buy more drugs. The callees who were arrested agreed to buy more drugs without persuasion. That's not entrapment. Left out of the article, because they were not relevant to the opinion, is those people the police texted who chose not to buy drugs from the dealer being impersonated.
- grecy 14y ago> The callees who were arrested agreed to buy more drugs without persuasion. That's not entrapment. It seems I'm confused about what constitutes entrapment. If an officer walks up to me on the street and offers to sell me drugs, is that entrapment? (I see that as exactly the same as sending a text message, or email)