Are you looking for a hitman?

[Inept]

well you could always kill the hit man... use a frozen 10 pound leg of lamb , then eat the evidence.. mwaaahahahaha

Alfred Hitchcock's "Lamb to the Slaughter".

 

[Lavinia]

I would prefer for those who have mistreated me to acknowledge the fact and give me an explanation. Sometimes people's motives are not what they seem.

 

[911]

If you've ever watched Perry Mason you'd know that uttering those words could land you in deep dodo.

There was a case here in Pennsylvania where a man was looking for someone to “off” his wife as some people put it. He was overheard in a bar propositioning another man that he was willing to pay $5000 if he or if he knew of someone that would be willing to do the job.

The man goes to the local police department and speaks with a detective. They set up a sting where an undercover cop approaches the man and starts a conversation with him, which eventually comes around to accepting the offer to kill his wife. The cops put 2 cameras and an audio device in the vehicle and has the undercover cop meet the man and as soon as the money exchanged hands, the police rushed the vehicle and arrested the man.

His lawyer seeks to have the charges dropped because the police intentionally set him up, which is illegal. A cop cannot knowingly setup someone up to commit a crime. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that if the police do this in order to save a life, it would be legal. They ruled that what the police acted on did not come under the entrapment clause of the Constitution and therefore, the defendant was held over for court. There are 2 parts to the “Entrapment Law.”

Because the act was never attempted or carried out, the charges were only for solicitation to commit a crime, but the federal charge was dropped. The defendant served 2 years and was released. Had the detective raised the subject of killing his wife, that case would have been dismissed. However, the detective allowed the man to broach up the subject without the detective guiding him or leading him to bring up the topic.

IOW, if I would have said to the man, “Hey, I heard you are willing to pay 5 G’s to have your wife killed. If that’s true, let’s talk.” That would have been entrapment and the case would have been dismissed.

I wrote this from memory, so I hope I got the facts right.