Word: commitement
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...civilized society is governed by legislation of morality by consensus. In America, you can't commit murder or rape or robbery [with impunity] because some time back there Americans decided that that was a good moral way to live. So it is today...
...agents, one of whom admitted destroying or altering some of his notes on the case, and the outcome was not surprising. De Lorean was also helped by his clean record. Most jurors concluded that the automaker had been lured by Hoffman into a crime he was not predisposed to commit-the legal definition, loosely, of entrapment. In many drug cases the defendants have long criminal histories, making any claims that they were gulled ring hollow...
...brought suit against her; Sagan won the case on appeal. The outline is familiar maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit but Mme. Biron, the landlady, thinks he did. She is a retired Marseille moll, and in her eyes Gueret's bravado raises him from an irritating reminder of her reduced circumstances to a means of escaping from them...
...District Court Judge Robert Takasugi had carefully spelled out the law on this point to the jury. Said he in his instructions: "If you find John De Lorean committed the acts charged, but did so as a result of entrapment, you must find him not guilty." Entrapment results if the idea for the crime comes from Government agents or informants, if the defendant is induced to participate, and if the defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime. According to Clarence Berman, 56, a retired environmental health inspector for Los Angeles County, some of his fellow jurors thought De Lorean...
...will push for legislation for tighter control of such operations in the future; he proposes that in some types of undercover stings the Government should be required to get a judge's authorization, as is now the case for wiretaps. "The Government sending secret agents in to commit crimes is a kind of dirty business," said Edwards...