Posted on 07/25/2016 6:07:05 PM PDT by Teotwawki
Georgia has ruled that 'upskirting' is legal after a grocery store employee caught taking video up a woman's skirt had his conviction overruled. Publix employee Brandon Lee Gary was caught on surveillance footage using his cellphone to record up a customer's skirt as she browsed the aisles. [snip] in court his lawyers argued that under the exact wording of the Invasion of Privacy Act, the woman was in a public grocery store and so was not entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy - even though the parts of her being filmed were covered by a skirt.
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That was MASSACHUSETTS, my state.
(And you may have thought all we were good for was raising taxes and liberals.)
Now Georgia has the chance to do the right thing, too.
So I take it that you are a good democrat that thinks judges should write laws instead of applying laws written by the legislature. Is Earl Warren your hero?
“Georgia’s Court of Appeals”
You can bet on the DA taking that one up.
It has fifteen judges and is the court of first appeal in Georgia. It is subordinate to the Georgia Supreme Court.
Sounds like a steaming hot mess with so many judges in one position, and they are based in that gaping, festering abscess called Atlanta.
I don’t care what happens as long as women keep wearing skirts, the shorter the better.
Do you want the judge to make the right decision regardless of what the legislature passed and the govenor signed into law?
Bad ruling.
However, for women who wear very short skirts on purpose, and let stuff show, or sit inappropriately in a poorly chosen skirt, wear no slips, no underwear or modesty panels,
If someone is taking pictures in public, they have no right to complain.
You got any pull to recommend, create, or sponsor legislation directly addressing this? This court’s opinion needs to be overruled with legislation.
And that’s coming from me, a hard-core perv.
That’s exactly what she was wearing. The legs were higher than the crotch. She could have been 20 for all I know. I can’t tell anymore. Plus the old geezer in me was probably doing a little rationalizing.
A woman's got to be wearing a VERY short skirt AND have abysmal situational awareness for such pictures to be possible.
And to give the guy not one but four opportunities to take those pictures? Smells... fishy.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with this woman AND the woman next to her that neither one were aware that guy was RIGHT THERE? Were they drunk or something?
No law can protect someone so obtuse.
What if the skirt-wearer is a lesbian or a trannie? Is it still legal then?
I agree with your comment
Let’s hope this goes to Georgia Supreme Court and is over ruled
They charged him with the wrong crime. They should have tried him for an L & L.
Tranny? Photographer is innocent, and Tranny Victim gets death penalty.
Lesbian? Photographer is innocent, and Tranny Victim gets misdemeanor for Aggravated Failure to Trim in the Third Degree.
Hot Chick? Photographer is guilty, and chick gets a Pulitzer Prize and a five-page spread in Maxim.
#27 I agree but just a hair.
Would that include Up-Burkhas?
He was supposedly restocking shelves. I suppose the inventory could be out of frame but it does seem odd.
Just basic situational awareness demands that one never let a stranger get so close. They’re not in some big city where people are packed together.
Seeing a bunch of conservatives go down the “there oughta be a law” route has put a palm imprint on my forehead. There is no law that can fix this that won’t be tyrannical in nature. Individuals have a responsibility to be aware and to protect themselves.
In GA that still happens on a regular basis. I would have slammed that Ahole upside the head with my purse.
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