From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 06:27:14 PDT
To: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
Subject: Re: An idea.
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Carl Ellison writes:

> If all you're worried about is entrapment, you need only ask the person
> in question if s/he works for any law enforcement or surveillance agency.
> If they lie, then anything after that is entrapment.
 
Please. This is not a way to avoid entrapment. Undercover police lie all
the time, and their lying does not become a predicate for an entrapment
defense. 

> I'm not a lawyer but I learned this from my masseuse in SLC UT, where
> mixed-gender massage is considered a "sex act for hire" and she was
> constantly subject to entrapment.

One shouldn't generalize too much from massage-parlor cases.


--Mike