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Another "Sex Offender" in Virginia

By Corey Rayburnyung

Radley Balko at the Agitator has a story from my home state of Virginia about an unusual sex offender. This was Balko's colorful take on the incident and conviction:Erick Williamson, the Springfield, Virginia man arrested earlier this year for being naked in his own home was convicted of indecent exposure on Friday. The judge sentenced him to 180 days in jail, but suspended the sentence.I?m still not sure how the conviction holds up, given that the two alleged witnesses had to actually look into Williamson?s house to see Little Erick and the Williamson Twins. So you now have to make sure no one can see into your home in order to be naked in it? How vigilant must you be?While Balko doesn't give a lot of credit to the stories of the witnesses, under any version of the facts, this hardly seems like a person that should be subject to the federal and state restrictions on sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).