Thursday, June 28, 2007

Once Again Texas (Doesn't) Lead the Way

Texas town roiled by NBC sting - Yahoo! News: "MURPHY, Texas - A sting in which police teamed up with 'Dateline NBC' to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about this Dallas suburb: Don't mess with Murphy.

Instead, it has turned into a fiasco.

One of the 25 men caught in the sting — a prosecutor from a neighboring county — committed suicide when police came to arrest him. The Murphy city manager who approved the operation lost his job in the ensuing furor.

And the district attorney is refusing to prosecute any of the men, saying many of the cases were tainted by the involvement of amateurs.

'Certainly these people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but the fact that this was all done for television cameras raises some questions,' said Mayor Bret Baldwin."

1 comment:

Brent McKee said...

If nothing else it would seem to taint the jury pool. Even people who didn't see the show would hear from people who did about the guy from their town who was exposed to the world by this show.