TOKYO (Kyodo) – Japan plans to require day nurseries, kindergartens and schools to use a government system to confirm that those applying to work the

  • @utopianfiat
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    91 year ago

    Legislatures are encouraged to make sure the line is as broad as possible, because there’s frequently stories of actual rapists and child abusers pleading out of sex offender registration. When the evidence is muddy and the prosecution doesn’t want to chance it at trial, but has enough to nail them for something, frequently sex offender registration is a big bargaining chip.

    Thus in many states, public urination is a sex offense.

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      01 year ago

      My defense would be “you may find urine sexual your honour, but I’m not a freak like you, so this isn’t a sexual crime”.

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        51 year ago

        It’s often not the judge’s discretion, is the thing. Any person duly convicted of crimes under xyz statutes (i.e.: public indecency/public urination) shall be listed, so the court/prosecutors can massage it to disorderly conduct for a cooperative defendant or whatever.