Undercover Operations Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 804 ... May 16, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 362 pages |
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... meeting and then I have to open the Senate . So I will not be here very long , but I will read your testi- mony and want you to know that we appreciate your presence . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . OPENING STATEMENT OF HON . CHARLES McC ...
... meeting and then I have to open the Senate . So I will not be here very long , but I will read your testi- mony and want you to know that we appreciate your presence . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . OPENING STATEMENT OF HON . CHARLES McC ...
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... meeting between a subject of the investigation and his lawyer ; " ( 8 ) an undercover employee or cooperating pri- vate individual will pose as an attorney , physician , clergyman , or member of the news media , and there is a ...
... meeting between a subject of the investigation and his lawyer ; " ( 8 ) an undercover employee or cooperating pri- vate individual will pose as an attorney , physician , clergyman , or member of the news media , and there is a ...
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... the course of the operation ; that an undercover opera- tive may attend a meeting between a target and his attorney ; that an undercover operative may Continued 386 quires that the delicate probable cause determination mandated by 27 77.
... the course of the operation ; that an undercover opera- tive may attend a meeting between a target and his attorney ; that an undercover operative may Continued 386 quires that the delicate probable cause determination mandated by 27 77.
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... meetings with judges who were supposed to be fixing cases . But the actual evidence , Mr. Chairman , was that the case fixing was carried on by the police , by lawyers and by low level court employees . Yet in Corkscrew , these leads ...
... meetings with judges who were supposed to be fixing cases . But the actual evidence , Mr. Chairman , was that the case fixing was carried on by the police , by lawyers and by low level court employees . Yet in Corkscrew , these leads ...
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... meetings solely with judges who were supposedly fixing cases . Previously gathered evidence , however , pointed to the ... meeting with the politician . Not only did the Bureau lack reasonable suspicion of that politician's criminal ...
... meetings solely with judges who were supposedly fixing cases . Previously gathered evidence , however , pointed to the ... meeting with the politician . Not only did the Bureau lack reasonable suspicion of that politician's criminal ...
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Page 85 - ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.
Page 71 - Neither this Court nor any member of it has ever expressed the view that the Fourth Amendment protects a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it.
Page 350 - Finally, while the inquiry must focus primarily on the conduct of the law enforcement agent, that conduct is not to be viewed in a vacuum; it should also be judged by the effect it would have on a normally law-abiding person situated in the circumstances of the case at hand.
Page 277 - The historical judgment, which the Fourth Amendment accepts, is that unreviewed executive discretion may yield too readily to pressures to obtain incriminating evidence and overlook potential invasions of privacy and protected speech.
Page 56 - Goldstein, For Harold Lasswell: Some Reflections on Human Dignity, Entrapment, Informed Consent, and the Plea Bargain, 84 Yale LJ 683 (1975); Williams, The Defense of Entrapment and Related Problems in Criminal Prosecution, 28 Ford.L.Rev.
Page 288 - To determine whether entrapment has been established, a line must be drawn between the trap for the unwary innocent and the trap for the unwary criminal.
Page 71 - The risk of being overheard by an eavesdropper or betrayed by an informer or deceived as to the identity of one with whom one deals is probably inherent in the conditions of human society. It is the kind of risk we necessarily assume whenever we speak.
Page 85 - States for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.
Page 3 - This morning the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee continues its hearings on HR 5030, theproppsed legislative charter for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Page 56 - It is surely sheer fiction to suggest that a conviction cannot be had when a defendant has been entrapped by government officers or informers because "Congress could not have intended that its statutes were to be enforced by tempting innocent persons into violations." In these cases raising claims of entrapment, the only legislative intention that can with any show of reason be extracted from the statute is the intention to make criminal precisely the conduct in which the defendant has engaged.