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These joo lawyers and activist judges just burn me up. Take a look at THIS case in Florida: The police make some arrests of a nest of queers committing perversions in a public toilet, and now a judge wants to let them get off! 
This just makes me sick. I blame the Clintons. 
Queer says officers 'wrong' to arrest him in sex sting
DAYTONA BEACH -- The law says a closed bathroom stall is a place set aside for disrobing and that masturbation, by itself, is not a crime.
A judge will consider those key legal issues before deciding whether to drop charges against two men arrested separately during a sex sting last fall at the Volusia Mall.
Attorneys for former City Commissioner Mike Shallow and David Behringer, a former teacher at Seabreeze High School, want Volusia County Judge Peter McGlashan to drop misdemeanor charges against both men.
The request was made on several legal grounds, including the way police and Volusia County Beach Patrol officers conducted the Nov. 1 investigation in the Sears upstairs men's room, where several men were accused of lewd acts. There was talk of missing reports. A security video from outside the restroom was overlooked by police and inadvertently destroyed by Sears management.
Shallow's lawyer, Mike Lambert, reminded the judge of changed stories by police officials and what he called a lack of professionalism.
Lambert pointed out that Beach Patrol Capt. Rich Gardner had been chewing gum on the witness stand a few weeks ago, part of what he considered a lack of professionalism by law enforcers. "People we expect to be professional, who care nothing about this system, they couldn't care less," Lambert said. He then turned on the Daytona Beach police chief for trying the case in the media. "Chief (Mike) Chitwood got on the bandstand and just went nuts," Lambert said.
Speaking out for the first time since his arrest, Shallow took the stand in his own defense. He refuted what Gardner said happened that day, saying the officer had solicited him with a shake of the foot, rather than the other way around. "What do you want?" Shallow testified Gardner asked him in the men's room. "Did you respond?" Lambert asked him. "No, I was freaked out. I hunched down and just kind of waited for him to go away."
Shallow and Behringer were among nine men arrested during the sting in which Gardner and other Beach Patrol officers assisted Daytona Beach police. The undercover operation was requested by Sears managers because of sexual behavior in the men's room.
The issue of privacy behind a locked restroom stall door is a central issue in both cases, according to arguments by Lambert and attorney Karen Foxman, representing Behringer.
They referred to a 1994 decision from the 5th District Court of Appeal, which threw out evidence against a man accused of masturbating in a restroom stall at Sunrise Park in Holly Hill several years ago.
In that decision, the court found that a person in the closed toilet stall of a public restroom is free from unwarranted peeking and intrusion, when there is no probable cause or suspicion that he is doing anything illegal.
"No crime was committed," Lambert said of Shallow's arrest. "A person is free from intrusion."
DAYTONA BEACH -- The law says a closed bathroom stall is a place set aside for disrobing and that masturbation, by itself, is not a crime.
A judge will consider those key legal issues before deciding whether to drop charges against two men arrested separately during a sex sting last fall at the Volusia Mall.
Attorneys for former City Commissioner Mike Shallow and David Behringer, a former teacher at Seabreeze High School, want Volusia County Judge Peter McGlashan to drop misdemeanor charges against both men.
The request was made on several legal grounds, including the way police and Volusia County Beach Patrol officers conducted the Nov. 1 investigation in the Sears upstairs men's room, where several men were accused of lewd acts. There was talk of missing reports. A security video from outside the restroom was overlooked by police and inadvertently destroyed by Sears management.
Shallow's lawyer, Mike Lambert, reminded the judge of changed stories by police officials and what he called a lack of professionalism.
Lambert pointed out that Beach Patrol Capt. Rich Gardner had been chewing gum on the witness stand a few weeks ago, part of what he considered a lack of professionalism by law enforcers. "People we expect to be professional, who care nothing about this system, they couldn't care less," Lambert said. He then turned on the Daytona Beach police chief for trying the case in the media. "Chief (Mike) Chitwood got on the bandstand and just went nuts," Lambert said.
Speaking out for the first time since his arrest, Shallow took the stand in his own defense. He refuted what Gardner said happened that day, saying the officer had solicited him with a shake of the foot, rather than the other way around. "What do you want?" Shallow testified Gardner asked him in the men's room. "Did you respond?" Lambert asked him. "No, I was freaked out. I hunched down and just kind of waited for him to go away."
Shallow and Behringer were among nine men arrested during the sting in which Gardner and other Beach Patrol officers assisted Daytona Beach police. The undercover operation was requested by Sears managers because of sexual behavior in the men's room.
The issue of privacy behind a locked restroom stall door is a central issue in both cases, according to arguments by Lambert and attorney Karen Foxman, representing Behringer.
They referred to a 1994 decision from the 5th District Court of Appeal, which threw out evidence against a man accused of masturbating in a restroom stall at Sunrise Park in Holly Hill several years ago.
In that decision, the court found that a person in the closed toilet stall of a public restroom is free from unwarranted peeking and intrusion, when there is no probable cause or suspicion that he is doing anything illegal.
"No crime was committed," Lambert said of Shallow's arrest. "A person is free from intrusion."
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