Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

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Is it legal for a detective to make the initial contact to a person when setting up a computer sting? If so would that be grounds for a case to be thrown out?


Asked on 12/23/07, 3:44 pm

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Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

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Why, of course, such a move by the detective would be legal, and, no, that alone would most certainly not be "grounds for a case to be thrown out".

After all, after the cyber-dick has entered the perverts' chatroom, what's he suppose to do, hang demurely by, waiting for one of these lowlifes to accost him?

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Answered on 12/24/07, 1:24 am


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