> Entrapment is a virtually impossible defense to make out. You have to
> show that you weren't inclined to commit the defense, but the cops
> basically made it irresistable for you to do it. You see why this
> has to be: otherwise all undercover drug buys and the like would be
> entrapment.
They of course _are_ entrapment. The only sense this "has to be" is that this result is analytic to a police state. And that is what the US has become.
I once mentioned to then US Atty for the Eastern District of New York (that is, chief Federal prosecutor for Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island) Andy Maloney, that I had worked on the defense of his friend Jack Murphy in his "Abscam" prosecution. Maloney said: "That was entrapment!"
john mage