This Judge says "Entrapment" is Not Legal!!!

One very important point of U.S.law is being presented here.If the families of a person (who was "set up" or "entrapped" by an organization to commit a serious crime) have the legal right to "sue" that entrapping organization.
Also then by extrapolation any persons who were convicted of any crimes,that were based on set up or entrapment by either the police or the U.S.Justice Dept.,have the legal right to sue those agencies who entrapped or coerced them into committing that crime or crimes!!!

It's amazing that we are even having a debate on this...Who pulled the trigger? He did.. END OF STORY!

It is quite apparent that the LIBERALS do not give a rats ass about kids in this nation! If him killing himself stopped ONE child from being molested, THEN JUSTUCE WAS SERVED!

"Chin wrote that a reasonable jury could find there was no legitimate law enforcement need for a heavily armed SWAT team to extract a 56-year-old prosecutor from his home when he was not accused of any actual violence and was not believed to have a gun."

Right. Unless he's growing a marijuana plant in his basement. Then bring on the SWAT.

People accuse me of seeing Drug War Demons everywhere I look, but it seems to me that our overuse of heavily-militarized domestic police in drug busts have desensitized the American people to the idea of innocent-until-proven-guilty citizen's doors being broken down, kids and parents thrown to the floor, terrorized and hogtied, all to prosecute a warrant to find an indoor pot garden. Never should we use such force on non-violent, non-emergency warrants.

I think the subject here is about a "sick" media, not just a sick person. I sometimes think the people who do these shows get a "kick" out of it. Let law enforcement do the job, not some TV station that is making money off of it.

1. He was being arrested, and whether or not it was filmed is a moot point. Millions of Americans are filmed being busted on shows like COPS. No difference.
2. He was well known to law enforcement, since he was one of them. His gun ownership views were well known to coworkers, too. A SWAT team was an appropriate response. It's always hard to take down preachers, doctors, firefighters, prosecutors and others who have traditionally lived beyond the law.
3. Bruce Baron's claim that 'no one is above the law' is the exact point the arrest of this prosecutor makes. He could not expect immunity from prosecution solely because he was a prosecuter himself.
4. Child abusers and molesters in America have a lower suicide rate than the general population. I doubt this dead prosecutor could be considered a suicide risk specifically because his arrest was publicized.
5. Fear of consequences apparently didn't stop him from harming a vulnerable category of human beings. If he chose to end his life, it was a decision made by him, for his own benefit, much like his decision to harm others.
6. I commend the police for doing the right thing, rather than taking the easy (and political) route by unloading him behind closed doors. The police are there to protect and serve, and their job is incredibly difficult. Carrying out their duties without special treatment is a burden. It's unfair to imply the police allowed their professional judgement to be altered for a television appearance.
7. I don't like the implication that the police allowed themselves to be instructed by media in how to make a bust. It's their job, damnit.
8. I'm sure it would be a dreadful shock to learn a family member had a secret life that involved illegal activities. But it isn't a media obligation to sugarcoat criminal conduct. Money will change nothing about this sad affair.

If He hadn't been found guilty there is no reason this should have been aired. However I pay tax dollar so that the police do put away people like this. People like him should be caught locked up and have the key thrown away.

A healthy person does not suddenly have a weak moment and decide to prey on kids for sex.

Ick. I have no sympathy for these pervs.

is is a stretch to say that just maybe the producer of this show, CHRIS HANSON, is getting a vicariuos thrill from all this? maybe he himself is just as much a predator as the people he pursues,as any shrink will tell you,the 'hunter'is not that far removed from his 'prey'...

Every week it seems there is some kind of story that reaffirms our decision to get rid of any kind of broadcast television from our home. It has been over 4 1/2 years and I couldn't be happier. I miss some news programs, but my kids read years above grade level, they don't pester us for junk on a regular basis, and we don't have an $800-1,200 annual expense for satelite.

I find it wonderful and bizarre that the stalking of proto-pedophiles by public servants in the US has become mass entertainment with the assistance of this nation's bumper sticker culture's television medium. The Romans, in the later stages of their decadence, took psychopathic killers who were not otherwise preoccupied with assisting the Roman army in its raping and pillaging conquests and staged them in the Empire's arenas to slaughter each other for the entertainment of the public.

Have any of you responders read Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? I can imagine the contemporary US TV medium, through the magic of interactive programming, giving the viewing audience a virtual thumb up or down on a SWAT team (or maybe Blackwater) sniper's taking out a perp.

This is a brave new world indeed.

It is curious that tv has this shit every week, while at the same time there is no questioning how oil companies get their profits....except of course Venezuela Oil.

Senator Obama, I nominate Amy Goodman for FCC Chair.

That show is despicable and that asshole Chris Hanson is the one who should be locked up along with everyone else even remotely responsible for it.

Good. This was garbage anyways-it's one thing if the feds or cops are doing this, but letting some privately run, flawed to the max outfit like 'perverted justice' get involved in stings etc-that was playing w/ fire. NBC and the producers of this dreck deserve what they're gonna get here.

Next up-Tim Russert-caught in bed w/ Obama. Film at 11. Barfbags at 9.

This is a wise and fair ruling. And before any wing nuts start yelling that another 'interventionist judge is siding with child molesters', I suggest you read the logic of the judges decision to let the case proceed. This whole sick idea that we now think anything should be televised is warping our society and our constitution. I was a police officer, and never lost sight that people (now what how I pre-judged them) were entitled to innocent until proven guilty, and their right to privacy. This whole escalation in violence by authorities, like the absurd, expensive, and gratuitous use of a S.W.A.T. team in this case, or the unecessary tasering death of the man in the Vancouver airport a few months back, is an ominous sign of Cops Gone Wild. When commercial TV is used to sensationalize law enforcement and criminal justice we have a real problem. Suddenly Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Marathon Man' doesn't seem so far fetched. I'm worried that the mass of Americans that tolerate (and love) this crap, and have so little understanding of our Constitution, and how easily a civil society can unravel, had better wake up from their American-Idol induced coma.

I don"t know the answer for whether NBC" is truly responsible for this death, but the latest issue in the Jessica Lundsford case brings up a good question. Her father is filing a law suit indicating that the local agency was advised a predator was living nearby, that he may have a warrant and they wanted something done, but nothing was done. There are other details that make this case different, but what I draw a parallel to is this. Is there a difference between a citizen (or group of citizens) pushing for action against a predator or suspected predator, and an entity like NBC pushing for action. Again there are differences in the two cases; I just didn"t want to take up extra space.

On one hand Law Enforcement has a duty to act (with responsibility) to protect all of us, but when is the act clouded by the pressure of a citizen or entity pushing for action. Does the issue of ratings for NBC lessen the need for action? Or is it the excuse when the results are negative. I"ve heard two different statements from family members about new stop signs. One said, "I"m glad they put it there before some got hurt" and another said, "They only put it there to generate revenue." Same stop signs, but cleary two different responses.