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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 15:04:27 PST
From: pamsmith%pamsmith@INFOSERV.COM(Pamela Smith)
Subject: File 10--How to avoid Postal Entrapment (Re: CuD #6.11)

Several issues ago, you had an article about how to avoid getting caught
in a Post Office child porn trap.  I found the suggestions of the
writer valid, but unneccessarily risky.  I am an attorney who has done
some criminal defense work.

There is no way most of us are going to be careful enough to not open
a package that comes to us.  So--you have opened a package that
contains child porn, and you can feel the knock on the door coming any
minute.  I think you should immediately call 911 or the local
equivilant.  Tell the dispacher what you have, who it is from, and
request that the police come get it.

This does several things.  The most important is that you now have a
recording of your voice, telling the authorities about your horror at
having recieved such dreck.  Second, the locals might give the US Post
Office a hard time.

If you wait even an hour to call 911, then you risk the Feds picking
you up, leaving you with no record of how you were really trying to
take it back to the Post Office.

Do not worry about whether or not the package contains material which
is illegal locally.  You want to be ON RECORD as not wanting the
package, and you want this to happen as soon as possible.  The time
spent returning the package to the Post Office, or trying to get your
attorney on the phone, is time the Post Office can use to execute
their warrant.

I know this advice might tie up an emmergency line, but you have no
choice.  The police do not always tape record their other calls.  So
make your call short, and be sure to mention the package contents, and
the sender's name.   Be sure your roommates who may open your packages
are also told what to do.

Hope this advice saves an innocent (if anyone is truely an innocent
these days.)

Pamela Smith, Attorney at Law


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