Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.A police "officer", topless in a public park, convincing some poor old schmuck to flash his package.
He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.
Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.
Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor.
While topless sunbathing is legal in the city's parks, exposing more than that is against the law.
This is law enforcement?
3 comments:
The obvious defense for that is he knew she was a police officer, or an agent acting on their behalf and was complying with her instructions, believing in good faith that she had a legally neccessary reason for doing so.
ie, the entrapment defense.
Heh....
Very nifty Roci...
But will a judge buy it?
50-50.
This is the reason why entrapment-type cases are supposed to be hard to prove. They require more than simple enticement to committ a crime that the accused would not have done if the law enforcement agent had not asked them to.
Protitution sting cases usually work because the police know they have to get the accused to mention sex AND money or they don't have a case.
In this case, as with other vice cases, the police depend on the embarassment of the accused to make their case by pleading guilty to a lesser offense.
Some judges are actually offended when an accused claims he is innocent by reason of entrapment.
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