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