{"id":185942,"date":"2014-07-09T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/09\/in-this-case-it-is-appropriate-to-use-porcine-metaphors-to-refer-to-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T01:27:00","slug":"in-this-case-it-is-appropriate-to-use-porcine-metaphors-to-refer-to-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/09\/in-this-case-it-is-appropriate-to-use-porcine-metaphors-to-refer-to-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Case, it is Appropriate to Use Porcine Metaphors to Refer to Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the story, girl sexts boy, boy sexts girl back, and the police and district attorney demand a photo of boys erect penis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Manassas City teenager accused of \u201csexting\u201d a video to his girlfriend is now facing a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take a photo of his erect penis, possibly forcing the teen to become erect by taking him to a hospital and giving him an injection, the teen\u2019s lawyers said. A Prince William County judge allowed the 17-year-old to leave the area without the warrant being served or the pictures being taken \u2014 yet.<\/span>

<\/span> The teen is facing two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography, which could lead not only to incarceration until he\u2019s 21, but inclusion on the state sex offender data base for, possibly, the rest of his life. David Culver of NBC Washington first reported the story and interviewed the teen\u2019s guardian, his aunt, who was shocked at the lengths Prince William authorities were willing to go to make a sexting case in juvenile court.<\/span>

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<\/span> Foster said the case began when the teen\u2019s 15-year-old girlfriend sent photos of herself to the 17-year-old, who in turn sent her the video in question. The girl has not been charged, and her mother filed a complaint about the boy\u2019s video, Foster said. The male teen was served with petitions from juvenile court in early February, and not arrested, but when the case went to trial in juvenile court in June, Foster said prosecutors forgot to certify that the teen was a juvenile. The case was dismissed, but police immediately obtained new charges and also a search warrant for his home. Police also arrested the teen and took him to juvenile jail, where Foster said they took photos of the teen\u2019s genitals against his will.<\/span>

<\/span> The case was set for trial on July 1, where Foster said Assistant Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Claiborne Richardson told her that her client must either plead guilty or police would obtain another search warrant \u201cfor pictures of his erect penis<\/span><\/b>,\u201d for comparison to the evidence from the teen\u2019s cell phone. Foster asked how that would be accomplished and was told that \u201cwe just take him down to the hospital, give him a shot and then take the pictures that we need.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

This is beyond contemptible.<\/p>\n

This is a profound<\/b> abuse of prosecutorial discretion.  In fact, I would argue that this is a credible threat of torture, as well as conspiracy to produce child pornography.<\/p>\n

This is profoundly and deeply unethical, and the local bar should be apprised of this behavior.<\/p>\n

If there were justice in the world, that evil ratf%$#<\/strike> attorney would be flipping burgers for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the story, girl sexts boy, boy sexts girl back, and the police and district attorney demand a photo of boys erect penis: A Manassas City teenager accused of \u201csexting\u201d a video to his girlfriend is now facing a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,969,972,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}