re: The FBI monitored a website for hiring a hitman; a New Orleans woman fell for it.

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Where are the pics of this lovely lady?

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Possibly her

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Entrapment is where you're put into a situation where you don't have a way out of committing a crime.

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That's not what entrapment is.

But to settle the debate here the reason this isn't entrapment is because this website was built and started by a private citizen as a "joke" and then when he got serious responses, he forwarded them to the FBI and he now continues to operate and monitor the website under the assumption that he will forward information to the FBI.

If all of that sounds a little suspicious to you (ie, agency) then maybe you're onto something, but as long as a private citizen is baiting the trap then the government can still skin the hide. And nobody is going to rush out to defend the civil liberties of some Karen who is trying to kill her husband.

I knew two guys in high school who were a year older than me. One of the guys dad was the mayor of our small town. Two years out of HS they were involved in a small time drug distribution ring in East Cobb, Ga.. They tried to hire a guy to give some dude a tune-up and got put on the ground and arrested after money changed hands. This happened at a Hardees. Yes, a Hardees in Marietta, GA.

I knew the mayors son well. Our dads coached us together growing up. The son was the most 80s preppy guy you would ever come across. Like some goober out of a movie. He got sent to the State Pen in Jackson, GA. for 2 years. He was not the same smooth talking preppy after his release. He was a custom made prison bitch if there ever was one.

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You’re the stupid frick that actually believes it

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Now now, getting worked up might cause you to split your corset.

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That's not what entrapment is.

But to settle the debate here the reason this isn't entrapment is because this website was built and started by a private citizen as a "joke" and then when he got serious responses, he forwarded them to the FBI and he now continues to operate and monitor the website under the assumption that he will forward information to the FBI.

If all of that sounds a little suspicious to you (ie, agency) then maybe you're onto something, but as long as a private citizen is baiting the trap then the government can still skin the hide. And nobody is going to rush out to defend the civil liberties of some Karen who is trying to kill her husband.

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Wrong. It does not matter that the website was built and started by a private citizen.


A valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. Of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.

Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. Nor does the government's use of artifice, stratagem, pretense, or deceit establish inducement. Rather, inducement requires a showing of at least persuasion or mild coercion; pleas based on need, sympathy, or friendship; or extraordinary promises of the sort "that would blind the ordinary person to his legal duties." Inducement shown only if government's behavior was such that "a law-abiding citizen's will to obey the law could have been overborne." Inducement shown if government created "a substantial risk that an offense would be committed by a person other than one ready to commit it." The key question is whether the officer did something that would induce an otherwise normally law abiding citizen to commit a crime.

Even if inducement has been shown, a finding of predisposition is fatal to an entrapment defense. The predisposition inquiry focuses upon whether the defendant "was an unwary innocent or, instead, an unwary criminal who readily availed himself of the opportunity to perpetrate the crime." Thus, predisposition should not be confused with intent or mens rea: a person may have the requisite intent to commit the crime, yet be entrapped. Also, predisposition may exist even in the absence of prior criminal involvement: "the ready commission of the criminal act," such as where a defendant promptly accepts an undercover agent's offer of an opportunity to buy or sell drugs, may itself establish predisposition.

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So what are the charges if someone was to act like they want to hire a gun through this site and then at the sit down he says "This is so cool. I always wanted to meet an FBI agent!".

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You can't find out if you don't frick around

You can’t only get hitman on the dark web bro

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Waffle House


Where murders are planned

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And sometimes executed.

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How is this not entrapment?

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The same way pedophile stings aren't entrapment, even though the 12 year old that the pervert talks into having sex turns out to be Chris Hansen.