{"id":698,"date":"2012-10-19T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=698"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:03:19","slug":"42-some-things-undercovers-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"42. Some Things Undercovers Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"Entrapment22\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment22.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Entrapment22-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a2d0dfe46e317050183714' value='6a2d0dfe46e317050183714'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a2d0dfe46e317050183714' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a2d0dfe46e317050183714' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a2d0dfe46e317050183714' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped! <br \/>Entrapment pg 22: Undercover Police Committing Crimes<\/p>\n<p>(There are limits on what crimes undercovers can engage in. They can&#8217;t hurt someone, for example, or conduct illegal wiretaps or otherwise violate their targets&#8217; constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>But they are allowed to commit crimes incidental to their undercover role. So a cop posing as an addict is allowed to buy and possess drugs. And Saul was allowed to do so in his role as dealer.)<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a2d0dfe46e317050183714' 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-698","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\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}