TV crime sting has unexpected ending

Here's one of the TV sting operations that perhaps didn't go the way authorities wanted.  Thomas Snodgrass was caught on tape in one of those cable TV sex stings. But on Wednesday, an L.A. jury found him not guilty. Details from the Daily Breeze's Denise Nix:

Snodgrass was arrested on April 6, 2007, after he engaged in a nearly 40-minute sexually explicit online chat with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl.

He was actually talking with a detective, who was being filmed by CourtTV, now truTV.

Snodgrass was arrested at a gas station at Inglewood Avenue and El Segundo Boulevard, where he had arranged to meet the fake girl.

He was charged with contacting a minor on the Internet to commit a sexual offense and an attempted lewd act on a child.

Snodgrass' attorney, Deputy Public Defender Ann Maloney Dawidziak, argued to the jury last week that her client did not intend to have sex with the girl and that the case is based on illegal entrapment by the police. Dawidziak said she believes the jury reached the correct verdict.

"For a police department to accept any financial benefit from a TV producer in exchange for making on-camera arrests for a television series seems to raise issues of fairness and public policy," Dawidziak said. "Furthermore, the timing, action and drama which contribute to a successful TV show may be antithetical to good police work."

-- Shelby Grad

Comments

[Suzanne]

AHHHHHHHHH, Sweet Justice!!! That is wonderful! Maybe there is hope for all of the other individuals serving time for created crimes.
It is wrong to do that and the Bible tells us so!
ROMANS 14:13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.