Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

We'll see what difference it makes

Brendan Filone wrote: »

Since Jimmy and Kim seemed happy at the end about the tape being played in court I'm guessing that they had Mike replace the tape with another recording.

Not sure about that. She wanted to get Chuck to admit he had a copy. Doesn't make sense to do that if Mike had already changed the tape. Plus in the diner Mike would have handed over the tape. He wouldn't know the exact type of cassette to swap.

I read a theory that chuck having copied the tape will be used to show that he conspired to bait jimmy into stealing the tape.

Chuck patronises Kim that she doesn't know the bar association requires lower level of proof in its cases. I'm guessing that will come back to bite him.

Alongside entrapment, could copying evidence be considered tampering with it? Be a hard time convincing which is the original, copying something can be done with a bias then!

the bar association hearing is a professional ethics, fitness to practice type hearing. Jimmy admitting on the tape he tampered with the documents is highly unethical and chuck wants that to be used to strike him off as a lawyer.

If jimmy and Kim can show chuck behaved unethically he'll have to withdraw his complaint against jimmy.

Whoooooooo
Gus back in full effect, best episode so far.

Love Gus, glad to see him in this season. Been excellent so far.

Mike is the best character in any show at the moment.

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

It's on Netflix, but not highlighted as it usually is, I needed​ to go search for it today.

Tisnt - I only have seasons 1 + 2

Nice to finally get to fix something, ha ha ha. Love Mike he's a funny ducker.

It's available at 7am Tuesday mornings I think. I presume it airs Monday evening in the US

Works ok Irish and U.K. Netflix for me no prob

I liked the way Mike was reading the handyman magazine in the booth at the end too :pac:

I loved that episode.

We can see that Gus is not a member of the Cartel and as such can get walked all over by a cartel member. Regardless of how much money Gus is bringing in the Cartel membership comes above him.

I also liked the fact that even though we know what happens to these characters it doesnt make their backstories any less interesting.

Now- with regard to the duplicate tape. Let me fill you in on entrapment. Chuck is an officer of the Court as a lawyer. Thus if he engaged in entrapment it is a FULL defence to any criminal charges. In fact, Chuck could end up being disbarred himself.

Entrapment

The act of government agents or officials that induces a person to commit a crime he or she is not previously disposed to commit.

Entrapment is a defense to criminal charges when it is established that the agent or official originated the idea of the crime and induced the accused to engage in it. If the crime was promoted by a private person who has no connection to the government, it is not entrapment. A person induced by a friend to sell drugs has no legal excuse when police are informed that the person has agreed to make the sale.

The rationale underlying the defense is to deter law enforcement officers from engaging in reprehensible conduct by inducing persons not disposed to commit crimes to engage in criminal activity. In their efforts to obtain evidence and combat crime, however, officers are permitted to use some deception. For example, an officer may pretend to be a drug addict in order to apprehend a person suspected of selling drugs. On the other hand, an officer cannot use chicanery or Fraud to lure a person to commit a crime the person is not previously willing to commit. Generally, the defense is not available if the officer merely created an opportunity for the commission of the crime by a person already planning or willing to commit it.

As a result, an admission by Chuck that the tape was a duplicate shows premeditation that he was confident that Jimmy would break in and used his friendly neighbourhood helper as bait. A friendly neighbourhood helper he happened to have now fired and will, I suspect, be a star witness for Jimmy and the Defence team. Ernesto isnt it?

Chuck made a recording. That itself is suspicious for a man who is has such a condition. Tied to the fact that he switched out the original, placed a duplicate and had a security guard and the managing partner at the scene leads to a cocktail of entrapment.

If entrapment is held it acts as a full defence for Jimmy and Chuck could be up on ethics charges.