It just struck me that maybe one reason cops don’t go to teen chat rooms looking to entrap is that they may encounter some minor boys who are just pretending to be 18 or older, using that ruse to try to impress an actual younger teen (maybe because they have a car, more money, alcohol, etc.). Then, if the cops managed to entrap the fake 18+ yo, by sending naughty messages and pictures, they would end up being guilty of trying to solicit a minor themselves.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-petersen-died-by-suicide-after-allegedly-soliciting-a-minor-and-his-family-says-the-cops-went-rogue

ED C

I am not only mad at the prosecutor and the judge for treating me like dookie on their shoes, but my own lawyer was so scared of the judge, he had to be excused and we could hear him puking in the garbage can in the hallway.

I do not scare easily, You could say I would fight a vampire bare fisted and not be afraid. However, when my own PAID lawyer go so scared of the judge that he had to puke, I knew I was done.

Anyway many years later when he was more experienced, and I had 6 years left on my sentence, he redeemed himself. He timed the hearing just right so a new judge could take over. My remaining 6 years were vacated. I broke down in tears and was so overjoyed, My Mom got scared and thought I had been sentenced to even more time. That is how hard I was crying.

@ Ed C,

Are you implying that Prosecutors use the system as a stepping stone into political careers? That they’re using the system to their advantage by doling out years upon years of incarcerations for semi personal gain and potentially basing incarceration times on personal feelings? That, that, oh! I’m clutching my pearls here… !!!

This sounds like you’re suggesting that our justice system is a system of pleas and not trials sir!

/Sarcasm off

I fully agree with you regarding the prosecutorial misconduct and immunity from said conduct. It should also be noted that Prosecutors offices in general tend to get up to 5 times more funding than the Public Defenders offices do…

Misinformation , misdirection, fear, and plain ignorance are rampant in this country. We registrants are subject to it daily. We have educated and uneducated peoples, concocting and spewing such ideas nationally. We have people who don’t believe in science and public health practices. We have politicians and sheriffs spouting lies about us on the registry to further their agendas. When people find out that we are on the registry their imaginations are often worse than our offenses.
We have to be careful not to fall into the same practices that are used against us. It is difficult not to be emotional, and thus lose sight of our goals. We need to be coherent and cohesive in our fight for humanity.

Cherokee, I’m going to stick my neck out and rave about the legal system a bit. The crux of the problem is with ambitious prosecutors. Although their oaths are to the Constitution and the rule of law, their incentives for advancement are to keep their numbers higher than others in the office. By numbers I mean things like win/loss ratio, dollars spent per case, sentence lengths, time/case, etc.

Lawyering is by its very nature a competitive occupation that draws in some very predatory types. Unless they get caught in an egregious ethical violation by a judge or an enterprising journalist, prosecutors will not be disciplined by their superiors. Due to the 97% plea rate (federal), judges rarely have visibility into the process. Indeed, they are prohibited from any involvement in plea negotiations. Add to this the fact prosecutors have not just qualified immunity, but ABSOLUTE immunity, and the result is that they operate with absolute impunity.

In addition to things I’ve seen and read, I have direct personal experience with prosecutorial malfeasance and defense incompetence. I was charged and convicted via a plea agreement for actions that were not criminal (morality notwithstanding). After doing legal research in prison, I wrote a 2255 motion and that conviction was vacated due to “actual innocence.” If the prosecutors knew what they were doing it was an ethical violation. If they didn’t, it was incompetence.

I believe that until the system provides corrective feedback to prosecutors, injustices will continue and escalate. This is just my opinion, so take it for what it is worth.

Veritas.

What do you mean, “subjected to algorithms”?

An error rate in what?

IT IS ALL ABOUT HASHING….ALL IMAGES/PHOTOS, AND OTHER RELATED VISUAL MATERIAL WILL BE SUBJECTED TO ALGORITHMS….

“APPLES TO APPLES, CANNOT EVER BE RELATED TOGETHER WHEN RELATED TO ALGORITHMS; ONLY NUMERICAL AND ALPHA NUMERICAL SEQUENCES CAN BE DETERMINED 100%; THEREFORE, THERE IS AN ERROR RATE OF 2%; WHICH IS A BIG CONUNDRUM!”

CherokeeJack and All Other Interest People…

This info is from one of my GEEK-A-ZOID friends; he actually sold his company to SunMicro for $1.2 Billion; so I think he Knows something:

“It is called hashing….Hashing is a wonderful technology for numerical and alphanumerical sequences, BUT FOR PICTURES AND IMAGES AND THE LIKE, IT IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE AS IT USES AN ALGORITHM TO ASSIGN NUMERICAL VALUES; SO AN ALGORITHM DOES NOT MATCH APPLES TO APPLES….THAT IS THE PROBLEM…”

Anonymous

Oh, but they would release the chat. It would just be so redacted it would be worthless.