Tuesday, October 29, 2013

We're the Only Ones Tempting Enough

Dissenting, Judge Noonan wrote that the majority gives approval to the government tempting persons in the population at large currently engaged in innocent activity and leading them into the commission of a serious crime, which the government will then prosecute. [More]
That's Phase Two.

[Via Geordan]

1 comment:

CarlS said...

I read the following:

"The panel affirmed four defendants’ convictions and
sentences for conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to
distribute and use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug
trafficking offense, arising out of a reverse sting operation in
which an ATF undercover agent recruited the defendants to
carry out an armed robbery . . ."

My first thought was "Isn't anyone prosecuting the ATF agent for initiating and conspiring to commit armed robbery?"