I read this story when he first arrested and I thought, what a waste of time, but as usual I am dumbfounded as to how our court system works...
Here’s a very detailed account of the incidents:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121804027.html
The woman was a busy body cops wife, she was a nut from the get go, the same as her half wit of a husband. Actually probably did not know they made them that big. LOL
The woman was a busy body cops wife, she was a nut from the get go, the same as her half wit of a husband. Actually probably did not know they made them that big. LOL
“larger principle is at stake.”
Yeah what? The women objected to seeing this guys little thimble in the window. Sounds to me like he is no Tiger Woods!
If a man is observed by a women naked in his own home he gets charged with indecent exposure, if a women is naked in her own home and is observed by a man he gets charged as a peeping tom.
Jack
He’s probably one of those types that Sen. Whitehouse was talking about.
In some states/cities women can walk around nude and topless but someone inside their own home can be found guilty?
He must be pretty ugly.
heh.
The original story, like this one, suggested that the woman and her son were taking a shortcut through this guy’s yard. If so, then that’s their problem.
But this story says that a second witness, the librarian, saw him naked through a picture window from her car on the street. If so, that strikes me as another matter entirely.
Sure, you can run around your home or property naked, but I don’t think you have a right to do it where people can see you from the street or sidewalk or other public property. Pull the curtains, or put some clothes on.
It certainly sounds as if this jerk was not just naked in private, but was deliberately flashing himself in public. That’s not right.
That this case made it to a courtroom is shocking. A woman, on private property without permission, looks in someone’s window and then calls the cops because she sees someone naked? Arrest her for being a peeping tom, and overturn this idiotic conviction.
“Yes officer - he’s walking around naked. If you’d care to step into the bathroom and step on the toilet and if you stretch yourself real high and lean to the left a bit you can focus your binoculars on his bedroom window” ...
If I recall the story correctly, this guy was making his morning coffee alone in his kitchen, when some woman decided to cut through his property on her way to somewhere else, and, not content with that, peered into his window. She should have been convicted both of criminal trespass and of peeping.
I think any sane judge would understand this. The problem lies in people that will take this ruling (if found not guilty) and use it for other purposes. Imagine a person that gets large screen tv's and put them up showing porn 24/7 where it is viewable from the road and sidewalks.
I can see people donating (a collection jar like some Christmas homes use) to walk around yards where women are naked in a house to skirt anti nude rules in a town.
The potential for abuse would be huge.
Innocent ... walking around the house after a shower to get a glass of tea before getting dressed to cool off around the back kitchen area and someone gets an eyeful while crossing your lawn.
Not innocent..... standing in a uncovered backlit window doing lewd behavior in plain view of those at sidewalk distance for hours at a time.
I used to live next door to nudists when I lived in DC. It never dawned on me I could call and complain they weren’t into the whole keeping their curtains drawn. However, their house was set back from the street, it was only their neighbors who got the full monty.
This ruling makes the libertarian in me rather nervous.
Why didn’t the cops arrest the peeping Tammies? I thought looking through peoples windows to get your jollies was a crime in most states and cities?
I worked 2nd shift for years after I retired from the Navy, got real tired of these people knocking on my door about 10:00 AM 3-4 times a week to save my soul. Answered the door ONE time naked, with nothing in my hands except my 1911. Never got bothered again.
Jack