Law Enforcement/School

[kingkong.bomb]

http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v06/n440/a06.htm

Daily News

TEENS BUSTED IN 'SNEAKY' STING'
by Laura Crimaldi, (Source:Boston Herald)
Regional News

US MA: Teens Busted In Sneaky Sting'
Massachusetts
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A Falmouth High School drug sting that netted nine arrests is raising eyebrows among defense attorneys who wonder whether planting a 23-year-old undercover cop looking for drugs and peddling a sob story is entrapment.

"It seems a little cruel," said Hub lawyer Norman Zalkind. "If I were the parents of these kids, I would want to stop them from dealing the drugs. But I wouldn't want to put them in a position of getting this woman to basically seduce them, getting them caught and facing serious problems."

Nine high school students were arrested at home Friday after undercover officer Kaitlin Keane posed as a high school student for four months. Keane told students her mother died, she had an absentee father and she needed drugs to dull the pain. Since January, she bought marijuana 31 times and ecstasy once from students, police said. The teens, ages 14 to 17, face 40 drug-related charges in all.

Defense attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp called the tactic "sneaky," adding, "The way they've gone about is not the way to go about it."

Associated Press material was used in this report.

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Fuck that! That is just not right. She uses four months of her life just to get some kids in trouble; it's just so ridiculous... Seduces, yes, even seduces them in some way just so they'll get caught. So remember kids, watch out who you are dealing to in schools.

[friendowl]

gotta watch out for the po-po's
they are a sneaky bunch

[Psycho4Bud]

ENTRAPMENT - A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.

However, there is no entrapment where a person is ready and willing to break the law and the Government agents merely provide what appears to be a favorable opportunity for the person to commit the crime. For example, it is not entrapment for a Government agent to pretend to be someone else and to offer, either directly or through an informer or other decoy, to engage in an unlawful transaction with the person. So, a person would not be a victim of entrapment if the person was ready, willing and able to commit the crime charged in the indictment whenever opportunity was afforded, and that Government officers or their agents did no more than offer an opportunity.

On the other hand, if the evidence leaves a reasonable doubt whether the person had any intent to commit the crime except for inducement or persuasion on the part of some Government officer or agent, then the person is not guilty.

In slightly different words: Even though someone may have [sold drugs], as charged by the government, if it was the result of entrapment then he is not guilty. Government agents entrapped him if three things occurred:

- First, the idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.

- Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime.

- And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him.

On the issue of entrapment the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped by government agents.
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e024.htm


But really, don't the cops have better things to do than to plant people in our high schools to bust tokers?:cool:

[Shelbay]

I think if I were the parents I would have to invest the money and challenge that arrest..why can't they take that manpower and destroy more meth labs and catch and keep the pediophiles:confused:

[grinthenbearit]

it takes DA special breed of inDAvidual to want to strip search somebody who did nothing, but make a small cannabis error