News snippet: Judge Rules Indecent Exposure Is for Men Only

[robbat2]

Here's a wonderfuly messed up news article. Have the US courts not forgotten their previously proved cases regarding nakedness on private property? I forget the names, but the previous case of an Illinois man mowing his lawn in the nude is at least one of the relevant cases. Secondly, why is the 14-year-old male complaining about a full-frontal view of a woman? Either he's gay, or exceedingly sexually repressed.

Judge Rules Indecent Exposure Is for Men Only

From Associated Press
1:26 PM PDT, October 20, 2006

A Riverside judge dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman accused of disrobing in front of a 14-year-old boy, saying the law only applies to men.

Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who "exposes his person."

"It's gender specific," Armstrong said.

He dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Alexis Luz Garcia, 40, of Corona, who was cited in May after parents of a neighbor boy said she showed him full-frontal nudity as he played basketball.

Prosecutor Alison N. Norton said the decision to throw out the case will be appealed because another section of state law says that "words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter."

Norton said Garcia had complained that the 14-year-old was making too much noise while playing basketball. She went out on her sundeck.

"He looked up at her, she looked down at him, and she disrobed," Norton contended.

The boy ran inside and told his parents, who complained to Garcia.

"She threatened to do it every time he played basketball," and the parents called police, Norton said.

Original sources (both California papers):
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-102006expose,0,7817008.story?coll=la-story-footer
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15809376.htm

Comments

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

Either he's gay, or exceedingly sexually repressed.
Thinking in cliches are we?
Or at 14 could still be in that ewwwwie girl's bits gross stage.
Or ya know morally aware that minors and sexual anything from an adult is wrong. Or pissed that the hag is interfering with his game.

Judge's job is to point out where things are badly written because law is all about language and arguing it's meaning.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that I'm presently reading 'The Politics of Lust', by John Ince - which reviews a lot of the strange objections modern society has to the human body and actions of the body. Even Sigmund Freud and Immanuael Kant are shown as guilty of some specious thinking regarding these matters.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

Lets see, she is using her nudity to intimidate threaten and bully a minor. In some places a more serious criminal charge would have been brought against her. Ah if only the kid thought to laugh at her ugly ass and continue the game.
Don't get me started on Freud, one good idea and a whole crock of shit in that man.

[amethest.livejournal.com]

Plus, the article even states that it was not the 14 year old who brought the complaint, but "parents of a neighbourhood boy"

But what's funnier to me is just Robin and his research...how overfair he thinks he is today, verses what he would have said at 14...

In related news

[(Anonymous)]

Alexis Luz Garcia has filed complaints with the police about a large increase of baseball activity around her area.

Wait, this isn't slashdot?! ;)

[selfishflesh.livejournal.com]

maybe the 40 year old neighbour is tremendously obese and hairy. that would frighten me.

i think if i were that boy i'd take pictures and then post them on the intarweb.

[lisanys.livejournal.com]

That's a good judge. :) A woman can not 'indecently expose' her reproductive organs since they're internal! I'm pretty sure California has a provision wherein women can be topless in public (surely on private property!).

[amethest.livejournal.com]

Is not the vagina part of the reproductive system?

[lisanys.livejournal.com]

Yes and it's internal.

[amethest.livejournal.com]

The entrance is visible from outside. But it's not clear what a person is a euphismism for, or if they mean the whole person. "His" in that case can be the same way "man" means "humans"

[darkviper311.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm not into 40 year old women either.

Not that I'd really be bothered to report it, but that's not the point.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

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