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[there's nothing in what he confessed to which charges lewd behavior.]

 

Another strawman. 

 

The definition of Lewd includes obscenity.

 

lewd (lūd)
adj., lewd·er, lewd·est.

1. 1. Preoccupied with sex and sexual desire; lustful.
   2. Obscene; indecent.
2. Obsolete. Wicked.

[Middle English leued, unlearned, lay, lascivious, from Old English lǣwede, ignorant, lay.]

lewdly lewd'ly adv.
lewdness lewd'ness n.

http://www.answers.com/topic/lewd

 

The cited Disorderly Conduct statute DOES have a reference to conduct that is obscene. 

3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct

 

Obscene behavior is lewd behavior.

 

That seems to be the way that Sgt. Karsnia and Detective Nelson were applying the Minnesota statute.  I suspect they are a whole lot more familiar with the legal statutes and definitions in their jurisdiction than you or I are.

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

The cited Disorderly Conduct statute DOES have a reference to conduct that is obscene.

3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct

I think what they are trying to say is that using a strict parsing of the language of the statute by itself his conduct could have merely been offensive, abusive, boisterous, or noisy, rather than obscene. The problem is that the charging document explains specifically what conduct led to these charges and his guilty plea.

[milford421]

The Disorderly conduct charge...

3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct

A little broad, don’t you think? Noisy conduct? Boisterous?

Depends on how you look at it, doesn’t it?