Unit IV Article Critique

Using the CSU Online Library, please locate an article regarding entrapment. Your article should be no more than five years old and should come from a professional or scholarly journal. After reading the article and briefly summarizing the purpose for the study, address the following questions:

What the main point of the article?

Who is the intended audience?

Do the arguments offered by the author(s) support the article’s main point?

What evidence supports the main point?

What is your opinion of the article? Do you agree with the article’s findings?

What evidence, either from the textbook or additional sources, supports your opinion?

Your paper should be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title page and references. Use APA format for your paper, including all references and in-text citations.

This is the article for the above:

Criminal Procedure — entrapment

Wisconsin Law Journal. (June 16, 2014):

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit

Criminal

Criminal Procedure — entrapment

Where a government informant befriended the defendant, introduced him to child pornography, and pestered the defendant for weeks to deliver child pornography to him, the district court erred in not giving an entrapment instruction to the jury.

"Elliott himself characterized McGill as a loner with few other friends, living in near isolation. And the jury had before it McGill's confession to Elliott of his social anxiety. Elliott alone could have traded on McGill's insecurities to make the number of telephone calls that he did in a brief period of time. The jury heard many of those conversations, and Elliott conceded that whenever McGill innocently turned the discussion to one of many subjects unrelated to child pornography, as he often did, Elliott would do his best to steer McGill back to the single objective of the FBI's investigation: convincing him to download child pornography for Elliott, his friend."

Reversed and Remanded.

12-3490 U.S. v. McGill

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Gottschall, J., Rovner, J.

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Source Citation (MLA 8^th Edition)"Criminal Procedure — entrapment." Wisconsin Law Journal, 16 June 2014. Criminal Justice Collection, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A372007930/PPCJ…. Accessed 20 July 2018.