Very interesting point and lots of great conversation about this.
My first thought about this is to go to court and ask for a jury trial. Of course, hiring a lawyer for this would be cost prohibitive, I would take the chance and represent myself, or try and find someone to handle it pro bono.
All laid out, a jury should find as not guilty.
The "officer" on record saw an item and laid in wait for someone to grab it in my opinion. Is that entrapment? probably not. Is that a waste of the tax payer dollars? definitely. If they had set the items in question out themselves, then maybe an entrapment case could be made. Again, this is all just my opinion as I am not a lawyer.
Should enforcement of raiding from recycling bins be stopped? yes, but this was not in questi0on here. My city currently makes about $40,000 per month from what is in the recycle bins, That figure is getting ready to go up as we will be getting one large lidded bin rather than 2 small bins and we will be going to one single stream recycling. They predict a 50% increase, based on statistics, by introducing one bin with single stream recycling which will mean $60,000 per month for my town. I can support this because when those numbers go up, my home owner taxes won't.
I have strayed a bit from the original post, but tried to address a similar topic. Sounds like it should be free game to me based on the intent of the law, hence why I would request a jury trial and maybe even represent myself.
Again, the above is just an opinion, and I have no legal experience.
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