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]
I read the following:
ReplyDelete"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?"