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Lawyers for donkey-sex suspect challenge law's constitutionality
The Gainesville Sun ^ | December 11, 2012 | Vishal Persaud

Posted on 12/13/2012 6:42:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

OCALA - Lawyers representing a Marion County man accused of sexual activity with a miniature donkey have filed a motion asking a judge to declare the Florida statute banning sexual activities with animals unconstitutional.

Carlos R. Romero, 32, declared last week that he wanted to take his case to trial. He is accused of sexual activities involving animals, a first-degree misdemeanor, after he allegedly was found in a compromising position in August with a female miniature donkey named Doodle.

In the motion filed in Marion County court on Dec. 6, the assistant public defenders handling Romero's case — Joshua Wyatt, Scott Schmidt and Joshua Lukman — wrote that the statute infringes upon Romero's due process rights and violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

The statute's designated punishment for a first-degree misdemeanor conviction, a year in county jail, also constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and is excessive, the attorneys wrote.

Romero previously rejected the State Attorney's Office plea offer of a year of probation, a $200 fine, a psychosexual evaluation and possible treatment, STD testing, no contact with children in a school setting, no ownership or possession of any mammals, and revocation of his license to work in horse racing.

Last week at a brief status conference, Romero confirmed that he wanted to take his case to trial. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

The attorneys claim that the statute deprives Romero of his "personal liberty and autonomy when it comes to private intimate activities."

(Excerpt) Read more at gainesville.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 14thamendment; 8thamendment; bestiality; carlosromero; ocala; pervert; throwhimunderthejail; zoophilia
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Who didn't see this coming? The minute you say to men can marry each other, and engage in sodomy, well, you have opened the flood gates to all manner of perversion.

If two faggots who have the same plumbing (thus cannot procreate!) can get married,then why oh why can't a guy marry more than one women? At least these polygamists can make the argument that they can procreate. More than you can say for faggots.

Oh, it's going to get real interesting.

21 posted on 12/13/2012 7:28:04 PM PST by Artcore
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To: Artcore

“The minute you say to men can...”
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Doh! to = two


22 posted on 12/13/2012 7:29:55 PM PST by Artcore
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Morgana

Flori-duh alert?

Liberturdians again will support the perverts


23 posted on 12/13/2012 7:40:13 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A 'miniature' donkey??????? WTF, over? I guess that would have to mean any jenny that would not have to be stump trained in order to be sold into bondage anywhere in Mexico, Washington state, or New Zealand, inter alia.
24 posted on 12/13/2012 7:58:51 PM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A man and his donkey......it’s a beautiful thing.


25 posted on 12/13/2012 8:01:07 PM PST by sport
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Was the donkey under the age of consent?


26 posted on 12/13/2012 8:25:58 PM PST by BipolarBob (Riding my stick horse grinning like an idiot.)
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To: sport
After this last election I feel like I've been raped by a donkey!

That would constitute "legitimate" rape, most definitely about power not pleasure or oneness and against my wishes on threat of further violence.

27 posted on 12/13/2012 8:28:33 PM PST by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He was high delightedly diddling Doodle’s dangerous donkey derriere...


28 posted on 12/13/2012 8:28:42 PM PST by eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Clerks II"...Surprise!
29 posted on 12/14/2012 1:43:14 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sheesh. What a Bizzaro world we now live in. 40 years ago anyone in the GLBT “community” would have been laughed out of town, if they came out of the closet. Now this!!!!!!!

Now we are bombarded every day with GLBT propaganda supporting that which any one with common sense knows is a futile and dangerous lifestyle.

I had never ever heard about sex with animals till I heard President Bush mention the need to keep laws against bestiality. I had to look up the word to make sure what he was talking about. I didn't know we had laws like that, nor did I conceive of a need for laws like that.

Still, after the inroads being made by LGBTs, I think we all knew it would be coming. Never thought it would happen so fast. What a low and depraved level we are being dragged down into here in the USA.

Sometimes I just feel shell-shocked. Like I just went to sleep and woke up in some alternate universe, where Up is Down, Black is White, and the entire culture I grew up in has totally vanished, with not even a smidgen remaining.

30 posted on 12/14/2012 2:12:47 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Bender2

Some guys just really like a little a—!


31 posted on 12/14/2012 2:31:17 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: BipolarBob

Not in donkey years.


32 posted on 12/14/2012 2:33:23 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Artcore

It’s interesting. The attorneys make the claim that the law is unconstitutional because it doesn’t require that physical harm and lack of consent be demonstrated. However, the very same could be said for laws against sex with children.


33 posted on 12/14/2012 2:58:10 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He wouldn’t be riding or grooming my horses:

“In previous interviews, Romero said he would become destitute if he had accepted the state’s plea offer because he wouldn’t be allowed to work as an exercise rider and groomer in the horse racing industry...

Romero admitted that he gets sexually aroused around animals more so than humans and allegedly masturbated with Doodle in his room. He claimed that he would have had sex with the miniature donkey eventually, but that she wasn’t ready and was “blooming into maturity.”

Romero said in previous interviews after one hearing that he never harmed the animal and all he wants is to have Doodle back in his care.”


34 posted on 12/14/2012 3:19:58 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: LaybackLenny

We’s slippin’ and sliddin’ now. The “right” of proud perverts to ravish children is coming along, too.


35 posted on 12/14/2012 7:09:23 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Forgive my profiling ~ but ~ the only thing that could make this story even better would be for it to be revealed that Carlos Romero is an illegal.

Is it possible hell is earth?

36 posted on 12/14/2012 7:17:48 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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