AI Honeypots: Police Are Using Chatbots to Pose as Teens and Sex Workers to Entrap Suspects by Michael Thompson The surveillance state has a new tool in its arsenal that takes advantage of advances in AI large language models. Only, this chatbot’s conversations could land people in prison. The product …

‘How The Government Created a Terrorist’: FBI-Manufactured Crimes Reveal Urgent Need for Reforms by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In 2008, snitch Shahed Hussain worked as a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). Hussain met James Cromitie in the parking lot of a mosque in impoverished Newburgh, …

FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them by Nisha Whitehead, John W. Whitehead by John and Nisha Whitehead “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche We’re not dealing with a government that exists to …

Seventh Circuit: Defendant Entitled to Present Entrapment Defense Where ‘Some Evidence’ Exists of Government Inducement and Lack of Predisposition to Commit Crime by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that Robert Shawn Anderson was entitled to present his entrapment defense to …

ICE Used Fake University to Entrap Foreign Students to the Tune of $6 Million, Ruining Their Lives by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 9, 2022, 40 groups representing immigration advocates and civil rights activists sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, calling foul and …

Second Circuit Announces Defendant Need Only Produce ‘Some Credible’ Evidence for Jury Instruction on Entrapment Defense, Clarifying It’s a Burden of Production, Not Persuasion by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit announced that for purposes of the defense of entrapment, the defendant …

Multi-Agency Task Forces Manipulate Jurisdiction to Avoid Liability by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian In July 2014, college student James King was walking to a job when Grand Rapids, Michigan, Detective Todd Allen and FBI Special Agent Douglas Brownback stopped King, believing he was a fugitive in a Michigan crime. …