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   Message 38,948 of 39,879   
   Martin Gregorie to Les Cargill   
   Re: Zappa's Arrest......   
   28 Oct 17 12:04:59   
   
   From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:59:58 -0500, Les Cargill wrote:   
      
   > The old geezer wrote:   
   >> On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 6:47:16 PM UTC-4, The old geezer wrote:   
   >>> ......when FZ wuz busted for making that "sex tape"....why wuzn't this   
   >>> arrest thrown out of court because it wuz a clear case of entrapment   
   >>> since the detective put him (FZ) up to it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Kinda like:   
   >>>   
   >>> Officer Friendly: get some weed for me.   
   >>> FZ: OK   
   >>>   
   >>> Then when FZ duz...Officer friendly busts him.   
   >>>   
   >>> Please advise.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Still wondering about this.   
   >>   
   >> TOG   
   >>   
   >>   
   > SO it's California in the early 1960s, and Frank had no resources.   
   >   
   > It's not quite ahead of case law even describing entrapment - Sherman v.   
   > United States was in 1958 - but there's always propagation delay and   
   > defendants without resources take pot luck.   
      
   Yeah, local traffic laws can be money-makers too. The last time I was in   
   California, a drive down the main street in Taft made this quite obvious.   
   ALL the side streets crossing the main drag had priority, so you had to   
   play stop-go all the way down the main street or get pulled over. No   
   lights, just worn white paint on the tarmac.   
      
      
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