Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A man with a second-grade reading level and a low IQ was acquitted in an ATF sting operation because he was entrapped, a jury decided.
The jury acquitted Alexis Davis on two counts agreeing that the ATF entrapped the man by “pressing” him to break the law.
Had the ATF not encouraged Davis to break the law, he likely wouldn’t have, his attorney argued.
“He never would have possessed the guns if they hadn’t come up with that store,” attorney Sharon Samek said.
To the jury, it was a clear case of entrapment.
“To me, this was not about fighting crime,” said juror Michael Lehman of St. Petersburg Beach. “There is a lot of crime going on in the world, you don’t need to manipulate the circumstances in order to encourage people to do bad things that they might or might not otherwise do.”
