Originally posted by KidRock
No it isn't.The police do that all the time with "bait cars".
Now if the police TELL someone to go steal that money, you might have a case.
Yes it is.
Bait cars can be considered entrapment if the car is left in such a manner that it would entice someone to commit a crime where they normally wouldn't. As is the money scenario I posted.
Originally posted by Robtard
Yes it is.Bait cars can be considered entrapment if the car is left in such a manner that it would entice someone to commit a crime where they normally wouldn't. As is the money scenario I posted.
It isn't entrapment. The average person WOULD NOT reach into a car and steal 1,000 dollars. Only a criminal would.
If it was left on the sidewalk, you would have a point..but not inside another persons vehicle.
How are bait cars entrapment?
Is the average person going to be enticed into stealing a car simply because it is there and unlocked? No, only a criminal would.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
A criminal is only a criminal once they commit a crime, I'm pretty sure.
**** your mens rea and actus reus bullshit. grumpy
Spoiler:
For those of you who don't get it, I'm not actually upset with Blaxican. Hint: it has something to with with the fact that he's right and the words I used.
Originally posted by KidRock
It isn't entrapment. The average person WOULD NOT reach into a car and steal 1,000 dollars. Only a criminal would.If it was left on the sidewalk, you would have a point..but not inside another persons vehicle.
How are bait cars entrapment?
Is the average person going to be enticed into stealing a car simply because it is there and unlocked? No, only a criminal would.
It would tempt the average person to do so and an average person might just do so considering the window's open. IE entrapment. Now if the neighborhood has had a string of car break-ins, then it could differ, as the police are specifically trying to catch known thieves.
Picking up money on the sidewalk isn't a crime, the sidewalk is public. The only thing the police might be able to get a person for is if they didn't report the "found/lost" money and only if it's over a certain monetary amount.
Bait-cars can be(not are by default) entrapment if left in a place or situation where it would tempt a non car-thief to steal it. EG The police leaving a car running in a neighborhood with little or zero car thefts is entrapment. The police have to have cause to leave a bait-car, iirc.
Just how the law works, I don't make the rules.