Yeah, not disagreeing with you on any part except the entrapment. If I say “fuck you” to a dude on the street and he stabs me, he still can get charged for trying to kill me. That’s not entrapment.
Edit: I was corrected below, I had it wrong. But I’ll leave my original post unaltered, just know to read further
You’ve got some replies already, but I (not a lawyer) feel like you don’t quite have “entrapment” right.
Entrapment is when an average person might be duped into doing something unlawful in a circumstance where it might appear lawful or at least appear moral to the average person.
I don’t trust this example to hold up entirely, but here is a go at it: hitchhiking is illegal most places in the US, but should an officer pose as a hitchhiker that appears mortally wounded beg for a ride, you pick them up to take to the hospital, then they fine you for picking up a hitchhiker, would constitute as entrapment
Entrapment is when someone is convinced by a law enforcement agent to do something they wouldn’t normally do. That’s the key. The cops open up a shop for something completely illegal, you decide to walk in and buy whatever they purport to sell, straight to jail, not entrapment.
An undercover cop says “hey, we should go do X crime” “I don’t know man, pretty sure that’s illegal, I don’t want to do it” “nah it’ll be fine, you won’t do it, no balls, I’ll give you a huge cut”, that’s entrapment.
Typing these out, “entrapment” is not the most descriptive term, because the fake storefront is certainly a trap, but it’s not legal entrapment.
You are definitely right. I’m a little tipsy but would like to convince myself that I did already know that. I’ll add an edit to my fist comment to alert readers I had it wrong
It's not entrapment because she wasn't convinced, coerced or forced by law enforcement to try and hire a hitman from that site; she did so entirely willingly and without intervention from law enforcement.
To use the entrapment defence, the defendant has to prove law enforcement had a hand in getting them to do something they otherwise wouldn't have done.
I liked it better when far right know-nothing blow hards pretended they knew stuff about domestic politics. Hearing them put thoughts together on the middleeast is like watching a four year old try to give a lecture on, well, the middle east.
“Yeah ahhh, We know you’ve all been working here in Israel with us for the past, uhh, however many years or decades but uhhhh, if you could go inside that fenced in area and stand in the middle near a big red X, we would appreciate it.”
It’s a bad trend. I suspect a lot of times when a business raises prices, it is a long overdue increase so that tends to make the increase more. If it’s a lot of work to raise prices they probably raise them a lot now so they won’t have to do it again in X months.
That boot leather is addictive for some. They raise them as far as the market will allow constantly. In the last few years they’ve been testing the hell out of it.
I have experience with small business, they don’t do much testing. They are often reluctant to raise prices but when they finally do it tends to be a big jump.
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