[Liz]

He wasn't convicted for doing NOTHING.

US law is specific---one who contemplates and verbalizes committing a crime does do not have to "complete" the crime before L/E steps in.

His conviction also included "accessing the National Crime Information Center’s database" from his NYPD patrol car computer”.

IMO, that was the clincher--b/c he was fantasizing UNTIL he took concrete steps to find the women he wanted to cannibalize.

[V_TWIN]

Thanks for educating me, it just sounds like a very fine line to me.

[colorado tanker]

he was fantasizing UNTIL he took concrete steps to find the women he wanted to cannibalize

I agree that is the law, and it should be. It seems to me this guy was either a little over or under the "concrete steps" line. I guess its up to the appellate courts to give us the answer now that the jury has spoken.

There's some pretty sick stuff on the Internet.