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Slaying prostitution prosecutions when sting police engage in sexual contact.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In 1995, Howard County, Maryland, prosecutors dismissal a shameful sting prosecution against some workers at a massage parlor who some undercover police permitted not only to masturbate them, but apparently to do it to completion, which means such police truly were mixing business with misplaced pleasure (for how could the completion have been possible had they not been experiencing pleasure?). A prosecutor in the case previously worked at the same Maryland Public Defender's office as I; he would not reveal whether any of the sting police were married. The Baltimore Sun confirmed that some were, and that they claimed they obtained their wives' permission to do so, which would make for an interesting psychodrama in itself.  Now criminal defense lawyers for such sting defendants have a great appellate case to fight back against such outrageous stings, which are outrageous for going beyond an undercover officer -- posing either as a service provider or customer -- getting an offer and agreement for paid sexual activity with a suspect, In Minnesota v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).