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  4. From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
  5. Subject: Re: Illegal telephone recording
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171505.14058@claven.ucar.edu>
  7. Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
  8. References: <1993Jan20.172624.9115@netwise.com> <1993Jan20.230522.21003@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <JASON.93Jan21101055@jazz.cnd.hp.com>
  9. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:05 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <JASON.93Jan21101055@jazz.cnd.hp.com> jason@jazz.cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
  13. >Entrapment occurs when law enforcement officials commit some illegal act
  14.  
  15. Doesn't it go even further than that? I thought the phrasing was something
  16. like entrapment occurs when a law enforcement officer commits an act,
  17. legal or illegal, to induce someone to commit a crime that would not
  18. have been committed otherwise. Things like following close in an attempt
  19. to induce someone to speed would also qualify as entrapment even if
  20. the officer himself never exceeded the speed limit.
  21.  
  22. I think exceptions are made in advance by the courts for things like sting
  23. operations (undercover police selling drugs and things like that), but
  24. this requires a court order ahead of time.
  25.  
  26. --Greg
  27.