police human-rights us-constitution entrapment
Is what constitutes outrageous conduct clearly defined in the statutes?
<p>Are there any objective rules or guidelines used to determine whether a police officer's conduct was outrageous?</p>

<p>"outrageous conduct" has sometimes been a factor in holding police action invalid under the uS Federal constitution. In particular, there was a line of Supreme Court decisions that would supress confessions if they were obtained by "outrageous conduct". That line of cases became obselete with the <em>Miranda</em> ruling requiring warnings, and also forbidding most of the sorts of things previously lumped under "outrageous conduct". This sense of "outrageous conduct" was a purely court-made concept, not a statutory one, and the standard seemd to have been conduct that was considered shocking or unconscionable by at least 5 Justices. </p>
