[*]Associate Editor, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.

[1]See People v. Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, *13 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. June 9, 1998)

[2]See id. at *2.

[3]See id.

[4]See id. at *1.

[5]See Jarrod S. Hanson, Entrapment in Cyberspace: A Renewed Call for Reasonable Suspicion,1996 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 535.

[6]See WAYNE R. LAFAVE AND AUSTIN W. SCOTT, JR., SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW §5.2, at 596 (West Pub. Co. 1986).

[7]See id.

[8]See id.

[9]See id. at 597.

[10]Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 454 (1932).

[11]See LAFAVE, supra note 6, §5.2, at 599.

[12]See id. at 600.

[13]See id.

[14]See id.

[15]See id. at 606.

[16]See id. at 607.

[17]See id. at 601.

[18]Model Penal Code §2.13(1)(b) (1997).

[19]LAFAVE, supra note 6, §5.2, at 600.

[20]See id. at 601.

[21]See Hanson, supra note 5, at 537.

[22]See id. at 542.

[23]See id.

[24]See generally Barrows, 1998 WL 481800.

[25]See Jeffrey D. Weinstock, Online Stings: High Tech Entrapment or Innovative Law Enforcement?, § 2.08 (visited Oct. 15, 1998) <http://personal.law.miami.due/~froomkin/seminar/papers/weinstock.htm>.

[26]See Tracy Gordon Fox, Policing the Net: Cybercops Log on to Hunt Down Pedophiles, THE HARTFORD COURANT, July 12, 1998, at A1, available in 1998 WL 12416451.

[27]See Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, at *3.

[28]See id.

[29]See id.

[30]See Jarrod S. Hanson, supra note 5, at 542.

[31]See id.

[32]See id.; see also United States v. Mitchell, 915 F.2d 521, 524.

[33]See Hanson, supra note 5, at 543.

[34]See id. at 542.

[35]See id.

[36]See id. at 544.

[37]See id.

[38]See id. at 547.

[39]See Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540, 541 (1992).

[40]See Hanson at 547.

[41]Id. at 548.

[42]See id.

[43]See id.

[44]See id.

[45]See Weinstock, supra note 25, at § 4.18.

[46]See Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, at *2.

[47]Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, at *2.

[48]See id.

[49]See id.

[50]See Weinstock, supra note 25, at § 4.15.

[51]See Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, at *13.

[52]See J.M. Hirsch, Cybersleuth Cop Attracts Pedophiles to His Web, THE COLUMBIAN, August 21, 1998, available in 1998 WL 17196735.

[53]Barrows, 1998 WL 481800, at *6.

[54]Id. at 7-8.

[55]See Gary Ghioto, Chat Room Pose Pays off for Crimefighter; Keene Officer Pursues Pedophiles, THE BOSTON GLOBE, August 2, 1998, available in 1998 WL 9146176.

[56]See id.

[57]Linda Thomson, Police on the 'Net, DESERET NEWS, February 9, 1998, at B01, available in 1998 WL 2940102.

[58]See id.

[59]See id.

[60]See Tracy Gordon Fox, Policing the Net: Cybercops Log on to Hunt Down Pedophiles, The Hartford Courant, July 12, 1998, at A1.

[61]See Hirsch, supra note 52.

[62]See id.

[63]See id.

[64]Id..