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barelynangel -> RE: Is this an undercover cop or what??? (1/18/2010 1:50:33 PM)
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A cop wouldn't want to do this in her home, a hotel is easier. Secondly, a cop would not just hand her an envelope, there would have to be CASH or a money transaction exchanged. Thirdly, cops wouldn't try and set her up as an employee of a business because then they would have to prove she wasn't an actual employee and that the money was for sex.
I really doubt this is a undercover op, it seems as if they are making it far harder than it has to be to nab someone on prostitution. I fail to see how it would remotely be entrapment, law enforcement i believe is allowed to LIE while they are undercover, just as they are allowed to lie in interviews -- i.e. hey Jack, you better tell us something cause your buddy Igor is writing down his statement and it completely implicates you.
Entrapment is when law enforcement influences so to speak someone into committing a crime when they more than likely would not have otherwise.
If your friend is prostituting herself, then its likely she would have committed the crime without the police influence. That's why drug dealers don't get off on entrapment charges, they more than likely would have committed the same crime if it was someone else other than the cops.
To me your story doesn't seem very plausible, cops wouldn't create all types of conflicts such as doing it at her home or setting her up as an employee etc, they go for the least complicated concepts because they need it to stick in court and the more complicated it is -- the more reasonable doubt occurs.
angel
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