home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / misc / consumer / 22451 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-24  |  1.7 KB
  1. Xref: sparky misc.consumers:22451 co.general:2700
  2. Newsgroups: misc.consumers,co.general
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!fcrary
  4. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  5. Subject: Re: Illegal telephone recording
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.182242.4557@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  9. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  10. References: <JASON.93Jan21101055@jazz.cnd.hp.com> <1993Jan21.233733.16228@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan22.021011.26809@colorado.edu>
  11. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:22:42 GMT
  12. Lines: 19
  13.  
  14. In article <1993Jan22.021011.26809@colorado.edu> fedrick@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Kelvin W. Fedrick) writes:
  15. > Probably, but what if the police just place an ad in a magazine for,
  16. > oh say child prostitution, and give an address or phone number to
  17. > call or write to? When the poor fool calls, he is recorded. Then further
  18. > meetings are set up and at those meetings, they are video taped,
  19. > recorded, and finally arrested. Entrapment? Evidently not since this
  20. > happened in Denver not to long ago and some of the individual were
  21. > convicted according to the news.
  22.  
  23. As I understand these laws, the idea of the crime can not be initially
  24. suggested by the government. If the individual had never considered
  25. child prostitution, never seen an ad on the subject, saw the 
  26. government's ad and became "sold" on the idea; that would be entrapment. 
  27. If, however, the government could show that the same magazine had run
  28. other, similar ads for child prostitution and/or that the idea had
  29. already occured to the accused, then it wouldn't be entrapment.
  30.  
  31.                                              Frank Crary
  32.                                              CU Boulder
  33.