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.”
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If she had Harvey’s money she could get a fair trial and a good lawyer.
This is just another perfect example of the absurdity that is America.
Isn’t a mother who breast feeds “baring her breast” to a child?
Yes and I see that all the time. In a fast food joint, on airplanes, in waiting rooms. I have seen more public baby feeding boobs than I can count. None were ever questioned or arrested.
This is just a shame. I saw my parents come out of the shower on numerous occasions as a child. Even though you cannot un-see that, it did not affect me other than the “Ewww” factor.
Kids are allowed to sit through an Rated R movie with their parents with many nudes scenes. Double standards.
Now she can wait until they make that a sex offender crime and be put on the registry retroactively.
Exactly dude many took a plea to avoid 15+ years only to get retroactive hammering.
Reading through the comments I see a lot of support for her. However, if she were to have been required to register as a sex offender for this “crime”, none of these supporters would want her in their precious neighborhoods.
But something I’m interested to know in regards to what they lowered the charges to is this;
Since the original charge was a sexual one, does this mean that if she were to move to another state (like Floriduh for example) that said state COULD make her registerable due to the original charge rather than the plea charge?
This is something this woman and her family need to know before assuming she has her full freedom in this bullshit police state of a country.
But seriously…. she is now getting the lesser charge of being naked in front of her husband????? How the hell does the prosecutor think people engage in sexual intercourse? Does the prosecutor have kids? Did he get naked in front of his wife in order to impregnate her? If yes, then the prosecutor needs to prosecute himself for “lewdness” in front of another adult.
Yes, they COULD
They could? My first reaction was like Scooby Doo, “Bbbuuuh??” That means someone could be put on the registry because of an accusation and not a conviction? I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree, but really? Has this actually been done somewhere?
It happened to me. The accusation that I actually DID do, they agreed to drop but then added like 15 other charges so they would have crap to bargain with if I went to trial.
Since I did not have the money for a trial and was never offered a public defender, I got slapped with 16 charges.
During sentencing the judge did drop 13 of the charges and kept the 3 most serious, of which only one I actually did.
There was NO registry back in those days and no mention of any such thing in the future. When it came out and applied in 1997, I was still under supervision so yeah, ex post facto Taco. Instead of being grandfathered out, I, like many others, was grandfathered in.
Might as well have said, every person in Florida from this point on who gets released from prison will now be on lifetime probation.