Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

if i am on probation for messing with young boys can a police officer be given my name and email address and seek me out on the computer and impersonate himself as a young boy and begin to chat with me and lead me into conversations to solicit me and get me to send him photos which can be used against me in court to violate my probation and have me locked back up . is that not against the law or violating my rights online and entrapment.


Asked on 9/16/09, 1:39 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Marshall Law Office of Robert L, Marshall

Entrapment is when the government does something that would cause a law-abiding person to commit a crime.

According to the standard California jury instructions, if the officer "simply gave the defendant an opportunity to commit the crime or merely tried to gain the defendant�s confidence through reasonable and restrained steps, that conduct is not entrapment."

If the police officer wore you down with repeated and insistent contacts, that might be entrapment. On the other hand, it would be hard to convince most judges that a law abiding citizen could be induced to send obscene photos to a young boy.

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Answered on 9/16/09, 1:57 am


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