Woman jailed after Rentahitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
Woman jailed after Rentahitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
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Woman jailed after paying undercover FBI to kill a rival
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I feel like this story is repeated every few years.
Reality is not a mob movie. There are no cleaners for hire. Just the FBI.
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There are absolutely, unequivocally, killers for hire. You just aren't going to find them on the hitman equivalent of Amazon dot fucking com.
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Or you get hilarious incidents like this:
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police
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Well, a mechanic fixes their own car...
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1-800-GET-GOON.
They’re none too bright, but at least you know they’re not Feds.
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Be careful, you might accidentally dial 1-800-3-GOONER
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Hired goons?
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Clandestine meeting … at Waffle House
Happens more often than you’d think.
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The trailer is amazing
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Oh thank god, they’re hippa compliant
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They should have their slogan be "Our cleaner fees are cheaper than Airbnb!"
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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.
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Not exactly a lawyer, but I think it's legal because it's a private party operating the site and making a report, not LE.
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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
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Points for effort, but you still have it wrong.
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.
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Should have went to definitelynotafed.gov