Lawmaker's sex trial off to slow start

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Lawmaker's sex trial off to slow start
Posted on Mon, Nov. 05, 2007Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email

VIERA -- (AP) -- A Brevard County judge found it difficult Monday to find impartial jurors to try state Rep. Bob Allen on charges that he offered to perform oral sex on an undercover officer in a public bathroom for $20.

Many of those interviewed said they knew about the case and had already made up their mind. The case has been covered extensively in the local newspapers and on television.

''I've heard so much about it and I've seen so much on TV it would be hard,'' said one man, an engineer who before Allen's arrest had never heard of the Republican from Merritt Island.

Allen listened hard during the proceedings, his wife sitting nearby. He was raised in the area -- near Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Atlantic Coast -- and has spent seven years serving it in the Legislature. He is even honored on a plaque at Veteran's Memorial Park, the place he is accused of seeking sex, for its funding before his election. His attorney said the lawmaker was there in preparation for a fundraiser.



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[rurallib]

1. He wanted a trial? What an idiot

Does his lawyer think he can find 12 people who will believe that yarn? WOW

[rzemanfl]

5. I believe Florida juries are only 6 unless it is a capital crime. n/t

[rurallib]

6. However many - still I would think he would try to hush things up

[Atman]

2. Something got raised in that park, and it wasn't FUNDS!

I'm from Brevard County, have family in Merritt Island, but I never heard of this guy, though. I still know how he's considered legislature material...he has to PAY to GIVE a blow job? Does he wear braces and have a snaggle tooth or something?

.

[nashville_brook]

4. from Brevard as well -- just returned, actually.

he's the face of everything wrong here afaic -- pay for play.

[TomInTib]

3. "in preparation for a fundraiser". Hah! more like...

"fun raiser".

[onethatcares]

7. why does the word "hard" keeep

coming (whoops there we go again) up in this post?

[daleo]

8. He wanted 20 bucks from the cop, to perform oral sex?

I suppose that was a sort of fundraiser, then.

[truthisfreedom]

9. I always understood the wording to imply he OFFERED the cop $20 to LET him perform oral sex.

Not much of a fundraiser that way.

[daleo]

10. That would be different, then

These closeted right wing politicians are pretty amazing. "Tom the Dancing Bug" had a pretty good cartoon along these lines recently.

[Tejas]

11. remind me what planet we're on?

"Some who hadn't heard of the case still didn't think they could do it. One woman said it wasn't right to judge others because her son served six years in prison. A man didn't understand English well enough to serve, and another woman said she did not believe in the fundamental presumption of innocence."


:wow:

just :wow:

[saigon68]

12. APPARENTLY HE TREATED LITTLE BOYS WITH RESPECT TOO

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. In the "foreplay" stage, eh?

Gotta make it last as long as possible...

:evilgrin: