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Best Case Worst Case

69 | Dark Web Sex Chatting Brings the Feds (Part 2): But Could the Defendant Be Innocent?

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A man engaging in what he claims is fantasy chat on the Dark Web finds himself under indictment for his conduct. Is this that rare case of a defense attorney with a truly innocent client?

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0:00.0

When the government does something wrong, I will always stand up and say so.

0:11.1

It should also be a cautionary tale for people who are just doing this

0:13.8

for curiosity. If there are thousands of other topics they can talk about, talk about those.

0:20.6

The last thing he wanted was to have sex with a child.

0:30.9

Hello and welcome to the best case worst case. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler,

0:41.2

former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. With me today is

0:46.2

my lovely co-host. Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor. How are you,

0:52.0

Jim? I'm very good and I'm really interested in getting back to our guest because this case

0:58.4

not only is an interesting case, a unique case in my experience, but one that should be a very,

1:06.7

very, very important cautionary tale. If you're going to investigate this type of case,

1:13.2

you've got to do it right. And to talk to us about his case is...

1:18.4

Ronald Gainer, I'm a criminal defense attorney out of Miami, Florida and a former prosecutor.

1:23.7

Hi Ron, how are you? Hi, franceyh, how are you? Hi, Jim.

1:28.0

Well Ron, when we last talked, you were telling us about this case, a cyber case in which

1:34.2

the government had charged your client with a very, very serious charge in that he traveled to have

1:41.5

sex with a minor and intended and attempted to actually sexually assault a minor. So those are

1:49.4

serious charges and they could lead to sentence up to life imprisonment, right? Right and it was

1:55.8

something that on either charge, he could have gotten either 30 or life, but serious, serious charges,

2:01.5

implication and time. Well, and this is federal, this is a federal case, right, Ron? So

2:07.9

this is a case where the sentence is going to be the sentence and if you have a mandatory minimum

2:13.2

of 30 years, that means a 30-year sentence not to mention all of the registries that he has to

2:20.5

comply with if he were to ever get out of prison. So these are very serious consequences.

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