Badly drafted law? Was Re: Raimondo on Ritter

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Fri Jan 24 13:47:27 PST 2003


Justin wrote:

> 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



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