{"id":695,"date":"2012-10-19T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:03:02","slug":"41-myths-2-3-the-police-cant-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"41. Myths #2 &#038; #3: The Police Can&#8217;t Get Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-696\" title=\"Entrapment21\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment21.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment21-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1bda641adda9000850341' value='6a1bda641adda9000850341'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1bda641adda9000850341' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1bda641adda9000850341' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1bda641adda9000850341' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped! <br \/>Entrapment pg 21: More Mythbusting<\/p>\n<p><strong>MYTH #2:<\/strong> The police cannot ask you to commit a crime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Counsel explaining to Grayson<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>COUNSEL<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sorry, Grayson. They can\u00a0<strong>ask<\/strong> all they want. All you had to say was\u00a0<strong>&#8220;no.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They&#8217;re allowed to go after those who would say &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MYTH #3:<\/strong> The police can&#8217;t break the law themselves.<\/p>\n<p><em>Counsel explaining to Sylvester<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>COUNSEL<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sorry, Sylvester. A cop joining your conspiracy is not entrapping you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You were\u00a0<strong>already<\/strong> involved. Saul didn&#8217;t turn you criminal.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1bda641adda9000850341' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}