Topless woman used in police sting

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Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.

He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.

Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.

Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park. While topless sunbathing is legal in the city's parks, exposing more than that is against the law.

The case is just one of the more extreme examples of police stings aimed at luring people into committing crimes, a tactic that has resulted in hundreds of arrests, many convictions and plenty of controversy.

Law enforcement officials say that such sting operations are an extremely effective means of lowering crime rates and stopping the criminally minded before they commit worse offenses. From early 2006 to the spring of 2007, there were 160 citations for public indecency in the city, according to an investigation by 10TV News. Among those who were caught in the stings: an Ohio State University doctor, government employees and a retired highway trooper.

But such operations veer dangerously close to entrapment, say lawyers, civil libertarians and defendants who've been caught in sting operations.

At Garrison's trial, his attorney argued that it was a case of entrapment. "Columbus police utilized this topless woman to snare this man," said Sam Shamansky. "He sees her day after day. He's not some seedy pervert."

The argument failed to sway a Franklin County Municipal Court jury that found Garrison guilty of public indecency last month. He was ordered to stay away from the park, placed on a year's probation and fined $250. Currently, Garrison remains on paid desk duty while the fire department conducts an internal investigation into his behavior.

"We want to be held to a higher standard, we are in the community every day and we put our best foot forward, but sometimes we stumble and make a mistake," said Columbus Fire Battalion Chief Doug Smith.

Garrison could not be reached for comment.

Shamansky plans to appeal the verdict on the grounds that the jury wasn't instructed on the definition of entrapment.
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http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=4022717&page=2

Seems like entrapment to me.
 
yeah that's bullshit. i don't really think it's cool for the cops to be using topless chicks to lure men.
 
i saw a homeless guy horsing one out under an overpass, in plain view, a few days ago. i laughed my ass off.
 
chcr said:
This thread is useless without pics.
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we need this one in our lineup

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Gonz said:
Case dismissed.
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how so? that's how a lot of people get caught in undercover stings, with things like drugs and prostituton, isn't it? people posing as drug-buyers and prositutes soliciting and stuff, no?

if a hott individual wanted me to get naked in a park, i'd be like, "no, we're outside, that's probably illegal"... well, really, i'd probably be to creeped out by their own exposedness to even go near them.

it all comes down to decision-making. no one made him unzip his pants. yes, she asked him, but he could have said no. he didn't.
 
ash r said:
how so? that's how a lot of people get caught in undercover stings, with things like drugs and prostituton, isn't it? people posing as drug-buyers and prositutes soliciting and stuff, no?
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She stepped over the line when she asked him to do something illegal. That goes from sting to entrapment.



it all comes down to decision-making. no one made him unzip his pants. yes, she asked him, but he could have said no. he didn't.
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Excellent point. And probably the precise reason he'll end up convicted of a lesser charge.
 
It's similar to....

The cop says "ya wanna" & teh john says, "yea, how much". That's a vice bust. However, if the cops says "ya wanna" & he says sure...no law is broken.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
She stepped over the line when she asked him to do something illegal. That goes from sting to entrapment.
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That's the great difference between this and someone hitting up a cop dressed as a hooker, or someone hitting up a cop posing as a 14-year-old in a chat room. The perps are doing the asking in those cases, instead of being asked like in this case.
 
The undercover can even ask, "You wanna?" That's OK. If he/she asks, "You wanna fuck?" that's different. The initial offer of illegal activity has to be made by the perp.
 
Gonz said:
It's similar to....

The cop says "ya wanna" & teh john says, "yea, how much". That's a vice bust. However, if the cops says "ya wanna" & he says sure...no law is broken.
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How 'bout the one about public indecency? He still flashed his wang in a public space.
 
I'm sorry, but I challenge any man alive to pass up that test. A strange woman in a park asks to see my wang .... Sorry, no way. A half naked woman in a park asks to see my wang ....ziiiiiiip. After all .... she started it.
 
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