Petition: Pardon all people arrested and coviction of Internet Sex Stings

This sting was not good police work; it was entrapment. I have signed the petition. If anyone wants some encouragement read the comments on the petition page. It’s nice to see more people finally seeing the truth about these destructive, unconstitutional, worthless and unjust laws.

I got busted in 2004. I was in an “Adult” chat room. They cops set up the meeting at a bowling alley. I have bipolar and social anxiety disorder. At the time, I was having a manic episode. I called bowling alley and told them to tell the “girl” I wasn’t coming. A female officer got on the phone pretending to be the “girl”; begging me to meet her cause she had no way home, And she just needed a ride. The police removed all my belongings from my girlfriend’s house and destroyed them even though I requested them to be returned. I was sentenced to 6 months, but was denied parole until I did 22 months, because I had to take a sex therapy class. I have never been in trouble with the law except for this.

Here is a recommendation for you individuals that truly feel that the ICAC Task Force members conducted an illegal DoJ approved ICAC Program internet sex sting that ENTRAPPED you.
You need to run your case all the way to jury selection and even trial and force your public defenders (PDs) or private defense attorneys (PDAs) to submit every possible Motion (Suppress, Double Jeopardy, Dismiss, Dismiss L&L, Compel (all evidence, ICAC Investigative and Operational Standards employed in the operation, Sting Operational Plan, copies of the operational briefing, copy of the States MOU with DOJ ICAC Program Manager), etc, etc.) to the Court and make the Prosecutor work his ass off until he is so fed up with this that he works with his Boss to offer a good Plea, dismiss or drop charges.
Please, please, don’t take the first Plea offerings. This is what they all want you to do. Many of you have been ENTRAPPED via illegal internet website postings where the Undercover Agents have posted in adult websites and during the conversations, did a ”bait and switch” scenario. These ads have been ruled in many States as law enforcement soliciting, luring and enticing innocent law-abiding men who were seeking an No Strings Attached encounter with another adult and had no intention of a sexual contact with a minor.
Ask yourself, ”Who is doing the soliciting, Who is doing the luring and enticement, Who is sending a picture of a minor to whom, Who is lying and posing as an adult, Who is asking you to bring condoms, Who is asking you to travel, Who is ignoring your initial ”No” or ”This is illegal to have sex with a minor” comments and still coercing you to commit, Who is asking you what you would like to do to the minor, Who is making you commit and be descriptive about what you want to do with the minor, Who is asking you for the type of vehicle you are driving, when you are traveling and arriving, Who is calling or texting you back, again, and again, and again, after you do not initially agree to meet them, i.e. the minor or parent of a minor, Who is leading the conversation and bringing up sex with a minor, etc. etc. etc. These are all things that these Undercover Agents are doing which all fall into entrapment – soliciting, luring, enticing, etc. etc. Remember, when you went online to look for an NSA encounter, you did not do this in search of sex with a minor. The Undercover Agent set you up and had the total mission to do the above to stack the numbers and help prove to the Public that they are trapping real Sex Predators and that is the story the Sheriffs are giving the media and public. They are not releasing the rest of the story of their conduct and the illegal actions that they have undertaken to ENTRAP these innocent men.
If you are a real sexual predator, then you need to face your punishment and you have been caught and I applaud the ICAC Task Force for catching you. The Courts will clearly decide this. All others, go fight your cases.
PD and some private defense attorneys (PDA) just don’t want to do all of this work and will recommend against this since they feel that you will get nowhere with it. BS Make them work to support you and if they don’t, dump them. Ask for another PD and don’t pay your PDA and request a refund. Get this wording added to your contract that you sign with the PDA so he knows up front that you are paying him/her to work in your interest, and not that of the Prosecutor or Court. The least amount of time that he/she spends on your case affords them more time to take on other cases. Don’t pay your PDA all the money upfront and don’t agree to a non-refundable amount. Add to the contract how you desire to pay him in Month, Quarterly installments as the case progresses and then the final payment at the end if your case goes to trial. You will see that many will agree to this payment schedule and then you have control of your defense destiny. If the PDA does not want to work with you on this, then keep looking and searching for one that will using the free consultations that most of them offer.
It is just sad to keep hearing that PDs and PDAs won’t do the Motions or have recommended against them, see no value in doing this or that Motion, etc. etc. etc. It is your life, and not theirs. They know that this is additional painstaking, tedious and detailed work and the least that they have to do the better for them as well. Remember, they also have heavy case loads but that is their problem.
This is why many, many, many of them seek to try to convince you that you need to take the Plea bargain, which they feel they have worked well for you and is in your best interest. Don’t get me wrong. There are many, many, many excellent PD & PDAs out there that really care and will bust their butts to work your cases but after reading a lot of the comments from prior defendants, I believe that there are more out there that are just coming to work and don’t want to invest the additional time that you need in your defense.
As these Motions are submitted, the Court is either going to wake up or give in. Remember, both the Prosecutor and the Court as well have to write their responses and that is additional work for both and it starts developing a record of history of how they work, view and decide on these types of cases. They will make case law mistakes that will work to your benefit during the Appeal Process.
One day when all of this blows up in their faces, the evidence of their impartiality will be documented and that can then be presented to interest groups, the media, etc. etc. They can never claim that they did not know what was happening and that they were part of the problem which they allowed to continue.
My recommendation is to force the system to work for you. If you really feel that you were ENTRAPPED by the Undercover Agents assigned to this ICAC Task Force, then don’t throw in the towel but rather, defend yourself and use the legal system to the fullest extent. Force our PD or PDA to write, file, and argue your Motions and make the Prosecutor and Judges have to research and provide justifiable response and decisions.
Take your case all the way to jury selection and even trial if the Plea that you are willing to live with is not offered.
By submitting all of these Motions and having them denied by the Court, you have the right to then Appeal to a higher court. The Appellate Judges are as well going to wake up when they start seeing so many appeals and they will as well evidentially get sick and tired of this.
Force the legal system to work for you, not against you.

@Rick;
Thank you for the valuable information you’ve posted here.

I agree with all that sign this petition as these internet sex stings go to far and are unconstitutional and out of balance. There are character issues at play plus the fact that people are on adult chat site’s. Common sense would tell you if a person was actually looking for a teenage person they would go to a teen chat site.
These stings affect those ensnared in this fools parade when they test the limits of regular law abiding citizens. The police do not care how far they go in this game of cat and mouse. I have written to congressman but all my letters have went in one ear and out the other. Its time for people to speak up about this witch hunt.

As people said, these stings making people pedophiles rather than catching the actual ones. Cops can use their resources to catch actual ones, but as the sex stings are easy way to catch people (Mostly weak minded innocents/stupids), they are using these stings to bump up their cases. If having a weak mind is a crime, then all cops need to do is set up stings. This is really clear picture of a adult cop using all his brains to talk and entice some one. Who in the world as a real 12 year says i love to have sex with older people. The other side people start to think as some girl or lady is talking as a 12 yr old and gets sucked into this in a weak moment. When the person gets arrested, cops change the chats according their wishes, as they just copy paste the chats and if modified , no tool can catch it. These stings should be there but in a more reasonable way.

I was going threw some majors changes in life majors neck fusions c-2 vs C-7 going threw chemical- medical embalance consist fluid in the brain. Depression that can be dangerous after sugery met a female she was lying on line signed a disclaimer while i was medicated and she really hurt my heart my soul and it changes for life when you know your not a sex offender. I wish they would or could pardon my case because female munipulate males all the time. Its the most scariest thing you could imagine your scarred for life. please help me get this pardon.

I have been registering since 2006 after initially entering a plea to one count of F.S. 847.0138 (2001) by information at sentencing in 2002 the ASA and the judge stipulated on the record that the intent of the agreement was that I was not going to be a sex offender or sexual predator, again the same stipulation was made on a technical violation of probation in 2003 and directed DOC not to treat me as such.
I was released from prison in 2006 a couple of months before my release I was called up to prison classification where I was directed to sign a form directing me to register as a sex offender once I was released I respectfully refused and I was sent to confinement for disobeying a direct order from prison staff, the next few months as I finished my sentence and after my three attorneys I had used since the initial arrest refused to call me back in prison, the sheriff told my family that if I didn’t register I would be rearrested.
After the release from DOC I continued to pursue all collateral attacks to the conviction and judicial enforcement of my plea agreement all of which were summarily denied all the way up through the courts, about 2007 after researching the DOJ mandates issued to the states on the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) which reads as follows:
42 U.S.C. § 16925(a) sets forth a penalty for jurisdictions that fail to substantially implement Title I of SORNA, For any fiscal year after the end of the period for implementation, a jurisdiction that fails, as determined by the Attorney General, to substantially implement this title shall not receive 10 percent of the funds that would otherwise be allocated for that fiscal year to the jurisdiction under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.).
Thus, a registration jurisdiction that fails to substantially implement SORNA will realize a 10% reduction in its Byrne JAG formula funds. Each of the 50 states, 5 principal territories, the District of Columbia, and some federally-recognized Indian tribes currently qualify for annual awards under the Byrne JAG formula and therefore will be subject to the reduction if they fail to substantially implement the requirements of SORNA.
Calculating award amounts under the Byrne JAG formula is a multi-step process. First, initial allocations to the states, territories, and the District of Columbia are calculated based on population and violent crime statistics, and certain adjustments are made to ensure a minimum amount of funds for each state, territory, and the District of Columbia. These initial allocations determine the amount that goes into each state, but not the amount that goes to the state government itself. Rather, of this initial allocation 60% goes directly to the state, whereas 40% goes to qualifying units of local government and tribes. If a state fails to substantially implement SORNA, the 10% reduction in their Byrne JAG formula funds will be applied only to the 60% in direct grants to states, and not the 40% in grants to local governments and tribes within the state.
For practical purposes, the reduction will be applied in the fiscal year following the deadline for implementation. For example, if a jurisdiction has not substantially implemented SORNA and does not request an extension in 2010, the deadline is July 27, 2010. If it is determined that the jurisdiction did not substantially implement SORNA by July 27, 2010, the reduction will be 10% of the FY 2011 award, imposed when the FY 2011 awards are made.

For funds withheld, SORNA provides reallocation:
RE-ALLOCATION. Amounts not allocated under a program referred to in this section to a jurisdiction for failure to substantially implement this title shall be reallocated under that program to jurisdictions that have not failed to substantially implement this title or may be reallocated to a jurisdiction from which they were withheld to be used solely for the purpose of implementing this title. See 42 U.S.C. § 16925 (c).

For any jurisdiction that has been penalized and wishes to have funds reallocated back to its jurisdiction to be used solely for implementation of SORNA, that jurisdiction must make such a request in writing to the SMART Office. Requests must include a plan and timeline for substantial implementation. The final decision on such requests will be made by the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
Jurisdictions that implement SORNA have an ongoing obligation for compliance and thus, the Byrne JAG reduction penalty may be applied each year a jurisdiction is deemed non-compliant. This means that a jurisdiction’s substantial implementation status will be determined annually. This process need not be onerous, particularly if the jurisdiction has made no significant changes to its relevant legislation or sex offender registration and notification system.
As with the county I register in I first was told I was to register twice a year in person, the last day of each month the sheriff sends police officers around to registrants addresses to do two things (1), arrest an offender that has not registered that month, (2), Be in compliance with 42 U.S.C. § 16925, which required state law enforcement to assign local county officers to make physical checks on offenders to maintain compliance, the funds at sex fourth pursuant to the Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) See https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/jagp16.pdf 2016 was $275.000.000.
Also many if not all Florida counties charge a “administrative fee” Duval is $25.00 this fee is required when a offender reports to the sheriff every 6 or 3 months or if there is changes of a offender’s address. Legally this fee is not attached to the final judgment or is statutorily authorized under Florida law but the loophole is if you don’t pay the fee the sheriff won’t allow you to register so 5 years in prison.
PROPOSED ACTION TO FORCE CHANGE TO FLORIDA’S SEX OFFENDER REGISTERY
This will require a direct action to force problems with sheriffs with compliance with Byrne JAG requirements which will be intended to reveal the existing problems, and hopefully highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to this social issue, the simplicity of this is brilliant let’s just call it a sit in for now it won’t require transportation to a event or a space to protest all that will be required is for offenders to just not comply.
The police will walk up to offenders residences we all realize this and there will probably be arrests but not for failing to register as required by Florida law this is the beauty of this action, being able to slow down and force DOJ to try and change federal law will have a rippling effect on all state laws, social media will play a big part in this direct action. Please reply or email with ideas.
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