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Okay...say the cops hire a minor to buy liquor in order to entrap someone into selling liquor to a minor.
How is what the cops did legal? Simply because they are cops?
Pretty much.
Sorry ravi....hadn't seen where you had said it was about selling to a minor.
Yes, that is perfectly legal, and generally accepted as the only way to enforce the law.
And they aren't going to get out of it. The scenario where a 3rd party bought it for the minor (straw sale) is a different animal, but if the minor bought directly from the licensee, the licensee should be held responsible.
Licenses are a privilege, not a right. I tell my employees that all the time. I have the PRIVILEGE of selling guns, which also gives me the RIGHT to refuse to sell anyone, at any time I want. I exercise that right more often than you'd think, and far more often than most.
Sounds to me like your guy should have exercised it in this instance as well.
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