Utah woman pleads guilty to lewdness for being topless in her own home
A Utah woman who faced charges for being topless in her own home in front of her stepchildren has taken a plea bargain.
The stakes were just too high for Tilli Buchanan to take the criminal case to trial, her attorney, Randy Richards, said Tuesday.
She initially was charged with three counts of class A misdemeanor lewdness involving a child, accused of exposing her breasts to her stepchildren several years ago. The charges had especially weighty consequence: If convicted, she would have been required to be on the sex offender registry for 10 years.
Richards said he had advised his client to take the deal.
“She would have loved to take it up on appeal,” he said, “but it was pretty much at my advice that she not — not because I don’t think she would win, but there’s a possibility that if we go all the way to trial, she’d be convicted by a jury and then she had to be on the sex offender registry.”
Discover more from Florida Action Committee
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
This whole case is ridiculous and should have been fought. Her lawyer was a weasel and she got scared by the possibilities. She could have won a case for humanity.
State law vs federal law vs human rights. She bowed instead of fighting. (Yes, we don’t know all the facts)
Maybe the problem is with TV. On the family sitcom, “Growing Pains”: For the first episode of the first season (S1E1): Father Jason Seaver (played by Alan Thick) moons his own child.
CherokeeJack
Know exactly how you feel. They did the same to me. They trump up a bunch of charges that they make up from who knows where ,that they know are false so they can force you to plea. They do that because they know they don’t have any evidence to convict and it will look really bad for there record to lose a case. It has nothing to do with justice or protecting children but everything about saving face and tallying up another mark on there sheet. They care nothing about how many lives they destroy, yours ,your family , everyone associated with you. They sleep well at night feeling your just a no count anyway and probably committed other crimes that you haven’t been caught for. Plus they feel there so much better than you anyway so it doesn’t matter.
This is what we are dealing with. That’s why nothing changes. The framers of they constitution ,tried to write it in such a way to keep that from happening but modern judges have failed to uphold that and felt they know better. When the registry was first upheld , the SCOTUS admitted that when they as well as said it’s only going to be upheld to protect the children. At that ,they threw the constitution out the window in order to follow there own ideas which were based on false assumptions.
I forgot to tell you the worst part. They would “Withhold” charges until I would bond out and as soon as I did, I was re-arrested. They did that 3 times until they ran me out of money and finally my lawyer got the judge to force the state to present ALL of the charges and stop arresting me.
Between the bondings out 3 times and paying the lawyer twice, I was out $55,000 and still didn’t even make it to trial.HELL if I knew I was going to prison anyway, I could have saved $55,000 and at least had a pot to piss in when released and it would have drawn interest on the money to boot.