John Thornton
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> Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> A sheriff's deputy posed as a mother who was interested in finding
>> someone to have sex with her children
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> What kind of idiot would actually fall for that?
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> Doug
^^^^^^^ CB: The story I read here a couple of days ago also said that the "mother" was not asking for any money. What kind of ____ would believe there was a mother who was just offering up her five year old for free ? Well, I guess he might think there was a mother out there who thinks like him, i.e., that sex is good for children ( I guess that's what he thinks; otherwise, what _is_ he thinking ?)
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We just had a woman arrested where I live trying to sell sex with her minor child. The person she arranged to meet to have sex with her child was a sheriff's deputy running the same sting from the other side. If this prosecutor had met up with this woman online everything would have worked out alright between them and no one would have known. He claimed he's "done it plenty". Maybe he has. My fear here is that they are enticing people to commit crimes that they may have wanted to commit but would not otherwise have acted upon.
^^^^ CB: That's the legal issue of entrapment. You can be sure that the sheriff deputy posing as a "mother" has a script that is legally tight as not to be an entrapment.
A couple years ago I was discussing with an attorney in the state appellate defender's office the impossibility defense for internet fake kids who are really cops. ( I think it was discussed here by andie and others too). But the Michigan Supreme Court had already decided that there is no impossibility defense in same. I don't remember the rationale. The argument can probably be searched by an engine.
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I know law enforcement officials claim they don't do this but that promise is built upon a mountain of previous lies in so many instances
it is more than a little suspect.
^^^^^ CB: Well, in this case the whole exchange is in email texts, so this Florida prosecutor's defense attorney will be able to examine the texts for entrapment.
^^^^^^^ I don't have an easy answer but my feeling is that is is not the best approach to this problem.
John Thornton
^^^^^ CB: Anyway, it's like what I recommended ( smile) for Michael Jackson. He should raise a defense based on the ancient Greek value that pedaphilia is high virtue.
Going back to the Senator who was recently busted in the bathroom in Minnesota, when I heard the transcript of the exchange between the cop and the Senator, I'm like "wow, he really has got an unconstitutionally vague defense." I recall that issue was discussed here at the time. I read in the last couple of days that the ACLU is doing an amicus brief for the Senator. Of course, he made a big mistake pleading guilty.