How in the world is this going to be in forced? How is he going to determine criminal intent?
He is showboating something he cannot deliver.
Agree - sounds good but maybe he has an election coming up! All talk!
He is showboating something he cannot deliver.
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Hard to deliver, not impossible. One looks to details of the allegedly criminal incident, and for patterns and supporting evidence as well.
Convictions from this are unlikely, true, but this is definitely a good sharp smack in the face against TSA. They will -ALL- be more careful now.
An additional issue is tort liability, which is outside the DA’s scope of duty or authority, but not outside of the victims’ options.
“How is he going to determine criminal intent?”
Since when is criminal intent required in a sex charge? The fact is that it isn’t. Where’s the criminal intent in statutory rape when the victim’s age isn’t known to the perp?
Do not need intent (I know upside down laws):
As used in this chapter - (1) the term “prison” means a correctional, detention, or penal facility; (2) the term “sexual act” means - (A) contact between the penis and the vulva or the penis and the anus, and for purposes of this subparagraph contact involving the penis occurs upon penetration, however slight; (B) contact between the mouth and the penis, the mouth and the vulva, or the mouth and the anus; (C) the penetration, however slight, of the anal or genital opening of another by a hand or finger or by any object, with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; or (D) the intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person who has not attained the age of 16 years with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; (3) the term “sexual contact” means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; (4) the term “serious bodily injury” means bodily injury that involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty;