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Sure it is. The bag of "heroin" on the movie set turns out to be real, think the actors are going to be convicted of possession?


I'm not sure what is the point that you are making here. An actor who was given a fake bag of heroin as a prop which then turns out to be real is no more guilty than a courier moving a package that happens to contain drugs or guns or fake money or anything else - neither would be found guilty of posession.

These are situational circumstances, and no prosecutor in the world would choose to prosecute those - but there is 0% chance you could get away with saying "oh I thought it was fake" if caught with CP on your phone.


I was simply providing an example of where "I thought it was fake" would be a reasonable defense.




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