entrappedinVA
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? VA.
Please note: This posting is based on a hypothetical scenario and maybe subject to attorney client privlege.
here is the hypothetical scenario:
The cops posted a personnel ad on Craigslist pretending to be a female in the "Women who are seeking men" section of the site indicating that the pretend female was interested in hooking up with a MALE who enjoyed controlled substances and would bring some to her place. Someone was stupid enough to fall for it. Hypothetically speaking, this person might have gotten in his car driven to VA from DC after buying some around the corner from his apartment in dc. The fake girl asked him to come to a parking lot near her place and there the cops surrounded his car with guns drawn and searched him and found the controlled substance.
I have a very specific question: Does this person have an argument in this hypothetical scenario that he was profiled based on a federally protected class (gender) and hence had equal protection rights violated? If for example the ad solicited people on the basis of race or national origin that would clearly be illegal. Does the same argument work for Gender based targetting?
Please note: This posting is based on a hypothetical scenario and maybe subject to attorney client privlege.
here is the hypothetical scenario:
The cops posted a personnel ad on Craigslist pretending to be a female in the "Women who are seeking men" section of the site indicating that the pretend female was interested in hooking up with a MALE who enjoyed controlled substances and would bring some to her place. Someone was stupid enough to fall for it. Hypothetically speaking, this person might have gotten in his car driven to VA from DC after buying some around the corner from his apartment in dc. The fake girl asked him to come to a parking lot near her place and there the cops surrounded his car with guns drawn and searched him and found the controlled substance.
I have a very specific question: Does this person have an argument in this hypothetical scenario that he was profiled based on a federally protected class (gender) and hence had equal protection rights violated? If for example the ad solicited people on the basis of race or national origin that would clearly be illegal. Does the same argument work for Gender based targetting?