Full question:
I am an owner of a liquor store. Can the department of revenue come to your business with a minor for the purpose of sending the minor in to your business to purchase alcohol. If so, should the minor also be charged for this illegal purchase?
- Category: Criminal
- Date:
- State: South Carolina
Answer:
Entrapment occurs if the conduct of the investigating officers or their agents in dealing with the defendant would “likely” have induced a normally law-abiding person to commit the crime with which the defendant was charged. Entrapment does not result merely because officers created a situation which made it possible for the defendant to commit the crime. This is because it is presumed that a normally law-abiding person would resist the temptation to commit a crime if officers did nothing more than give him an opportunity to do so. Therefore, a law enforcement agency does not violate the law prohibiting a minor from purchasing intoxicating liquor when they conduct "sting" operations like you have described.
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