Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free

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Should remain in jail until retrial

yes we live in troubling times of the predators, but people shouldn't dismiss the growing trend of youth (and troubled adults ((who once were kids)) lying or misleading or hurting themselves or others - like their own children - just to gain attention for themselves). While all the evidence is being re-reviewed, the guy should probably remain in jail, for either the girl(s) protection or at least his own protection since the law will afford him little of it on the outside from vigilantism.

This is so close to another case Zdnet reported on where a couple of girls may have misled an adult who was supposed to be taking care of them, not advantage of them, whereas supposedly one girl telling him the other was 18 even though she wasn't. He or his lawyer tried unsuccessfully at the time to make relevant that the girl had a social networking page (maybe MySpace) that supported the retort that the girl misled the web viewing world on her age by portraying herself as 18.

Unlike to catch a predator, this skirts some gray territory. Does looking older or looking younger constitute intent to defile, does misrepresentation of age outside an event lend creditability to character review, does the legal system apply investigation equally or politically correct. When is evidence not relevant to a case or the character of those involved. If the guy had a webpage saying 'hey, look at me, I'm going to be infamous one day and I like the girlies", would that not be introduced as material to his case?? Have times really changed so much from witch trial days when just the word alone is stronger than reason and if you drown in the test for being a witch then you're not a witch mentality (not to say reason wasn't applied here but that sometimes law seems so emotional set as to not allow for supposition and investigation)?

Let's just hook them all up to the lie detectors and add those grafts to the retrial, the defendant, the accuser, the lawyers, the judge and the witnesses. Heck, forty years in waiting in the wings, why not see what the super sleuth jurors were doing?

Posted by: Boot_Agnostic   Posted on: 12/01/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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