Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons 432
60-year-old John Jacques has appealed his conviction for engaging in sexually graphic online conversations with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl, saying the police entrapped him using animated emoticons during the chats. From the article: "Jacques claims prosecutors withheld evidence when they failed to use a computer program that would have shown the jury animated emoticons, which he argued was 'clear evidence of enticement.' He doesn't support his argument with a legal basis, the appeals court found. 'We fail to see how viewing the emoticons as animations would have led the jury to conclude that he was the victim of excessive incitement,' the court wrote."
Re:Why don't you have a seat right over here (Score:5, Informative)
Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop.
This is where you go wrong - right there in step 1. Cops are allowed to lie to you.
Very, very incorrect. (Score:5, Informative)
Then you get labeled non-cooperative and your silence is used against you.
That's what they want you to believe, at least.
It's one of the tricks they use to get people to talk themselves into confessing, even to things they haven't done. Watch any episode of Law and Order and watch how frustrated the detectives get when their suspects clam up.
The only thing you should say to them is that you will not talk to them without your lawyer.
Watch a law professor tell you why. [youtube.com]
Nobody has ever talked themselves out of a crime. Don't talk to the police.