EPT20 Years for a Youtube Prank? - Page 4
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CarlyZerg
United States113 Posts
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Reaper9
United States1724 Posts
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Schwopzi
Netherlands954 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On February 19 2011 05:59 BroOd wrote: Well, what he's being charged with carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. This situation is really a perversion of what that law was designed to prevent (things like photoshopped or digitally edited child porn). There's no way the prosecutor will seek that, nor would a judge impose it. The real troubling part about it will be if he has to register as a sex offender. What he did was pretty stupid, but hopefully he gets off with a fine or community service. shh no one follows the story after the sensible ending they just look at the big show put on to get attention. sex offender status is really different depending on state but most of them reign an archaic program put in place during like the 70's that puts a rapist in the same category as the streaker, most of them are under reform currently though due to that bit of oversight but it'll be a long time before the revisions are actually in place. | ||
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opsayo
591 Posts
their job was supposed to be to uphold the law and convict the guilty, not put as many people in jail as possible | ||
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enzym
Germany1034 Posts
On February 19 2011 05:29 iCCup.Diamond wrote: What a silly waste of the taxpayers money in my opinion. If he had sung that version with the kids present I might get it but it seems hard to abuse children that are not there...... Aren't prisons in the U.S. privatized, meaning that this will "create jobs"? | ||
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PeaNuT_T
Sweden326 Posts
I think you can rob a bank and get away with less. | ||
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On February 19 2011 06:04 CarlyZerg wrote: hes not gonna get sent to jail, calm down everybody. OP only said he was charged with what theyd escribe as a "twenty-year felony", meaning probably that's the maximum possible sentence. This guy will lawyer up, his lawyer will tell the hick ass county to STFU and dare them to go to trial (as if they could find twelve jurors to convict this guy). And then finally the whole thing will be settled out of a court for a tiny fraction of the initial charge, probably community service like yall are saying. You're right. This is easier to defend than it is to prosecute. | ||
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ZombiesOMG
United States282 Posts
On February 19 2011 05:47 Spekulatius wrote: American law continues to baffle me... Yeah, me too. I don't get this at all. Of course, the parents are upset because their kids are in a video for the whole world to see online(without consent.) I can see why they would be upset. BUT I just don't understand the charges or the possible sentence. It seems made up on the spot, what a fucking joke. This is almost as bad as the reaction to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force guys putting up those signs(in Boston, was it?) to advertise a new season. This appears to be another case of The Internet People vs. The Old People. They just don't get the joke, never will, and by the end of it they fool themselves into believing they stand for something. | ||
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ThaZenith
Canada3116 Posts
On February 19 2011 06:06 semantics wrote: shh no one follows the story after the sensible ending they just look at the big show put on to get attention. sex offender status is really different depending on state but most of them reign an archaic program put in place during like the 70's that puts a rapist in the same category as the streaker, most of them are under reform currently though due to that bit of oversight but it'll be a long time before the revisions are actually in place. I hadn't even considered the "sex offender" side of it. I wonder, if he's even sentenced to something like 3 months (still too much) if he'd have to register, seeing as how it involves children in a roundabout way. | ||
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3clipse
Canada2555 Posts
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Ryps
Romania2740 Posts
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
Good thing IFC probably has decent lawyers. | ||
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redeux
United States148 Posts
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Hans-Titan
Denmark1711 Posts
On February 19 2011 06:04 RoosterSamurai wrote: So if you want to become a serial killer, go to Denmark. 2 recorded cases of serial killers in Denmark since 1900. One was a child murderer in the 1920s - jailed for life but died after 13 years; other was an Iranian refuge in the 1990s - declared insane he still sits in a closed facility in Denmark, where he will remain until he dies unless he is declared healthy. | ||
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Krehlmar
Sweden1149 Posts
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brain_
United States812 Posts
On February 19 2011 05:33 Toxi78 wrote: which one is the prank, the video or the judgement? Haha good one. | ||
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HellRoxYa
Sweden1614 Posts
Aka... none at all, had he not been arrested and charged? It's wrong on so many levels that I just don't know where to start, so I wont. | ||
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ampson
United States2355 Posts
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nastyyy
United States262 Posts
I've seen kids say some bad shit on TV. | ||
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