the injustice of it,is just baffling,got a judge that acquitts a perv, knowing in the begining
of the chat dude thoght he was talking to a 14yr old girl,then we have a juror stateing that
she would have found him not guilty,because of the tactics used by the show
i would love to read the court transcripts,dudes mother thinks the show ruined his life,and
all concerned, keep forgetting the fact that this man was interested,because he thought the
person he was chatting with was 14yr old,JMO.....total Fn BS,now we have another perv loose
to do...
--------------------MODS,i could make subject line work TIA
(The title is too long for subject line so I "adjusted" it) MB
Sailor acquitted of being a paedophile after To Catch A Predator TV show 'entrapped' himBy Damien Gayle
Last updated at 12:01 PM on 18th August 2011
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Judge Arthur Wick found prosecutors had failed to prove Mr Roisman had a 'specific intent' to commit the crime he was accused of - attempting lewd acts with a child under age 14.
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During their chats, Mr Roisman suggested they 'cut up some fruit and eat it off each other' and asked the fictional teenager about the oldest person she had slept with, court documents said.
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The defence team did not have an opportunity to present its case before Judge Wick stopped the trial and issued his verdict.
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Mr Roisman's lawyer, Stephen Turer, argued that it was volunteers from Perverted Justice who had steered the conversation towards sex and his client had intended nothing more than 'watching movies and cuddling' after travelling 110 miles to meet the girl.
He added that his client had doubted the girl's age because she had a mature voice and spoke in a sophisticated way.
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Sonoma County jurors leaving the courthouse said they were disappointed by the methods used by Perverted Justice in carrying out the sting.
Juror Kathleeen Kerchkoff, a bank teller from Windsor, told the Press Democrat that the southern-California based group had obviously induced Mr Roisman to act the way he did, adding that she would have found him not guilty if the jury had been allowed to make a decision.
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