Charges dismissed in Farmer case

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Robinson said 10 of the defendants have had preliminary hearings so far, and Farmer’s is the first to be dismissed. The judge who heard evidence against Farmer, he said, had previously heard evidence against six other suspects and said Farmer’s case was not similar to the others. “The facts of his case were not remotely similar to the other 15,’’ Robinson said.

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Hmmm.

I wouldn't exactly believe his lawyer here. I mean he called the place for sex. He was soliciting sex from someone even if it wasn't minors which is still pretty lame.

No game farmer!

I'd imagine someone wrote a check to someone's campaign here which made it go away.

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I'd imagine someone wrote a check to someone's campaign here which made it go away.

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The district attorney didn't dismiss the charges and Farmer wasn't acquitted. The judge in the preliminary hearing didn't find that the evidence presented didn't establish enough probable cause to send it forward to a grand jury.

What that means is that while the charges are gone for now, there is nothing to prevent the DA from presenting it to a future grand jury if he/she is convinced the evidence shows Farmer committed a crime.

If someone "wrote a check to someone's campaign here" because Farmer did something and they really need to stack the deck and make it disappear, they spent their money on the wrong elected officials.

To the best of my knowledge, none of us has seen one bit of the evidence and aren't in a position to say what (if any) charges should be filed.

That's really my point in continuing to post about it. Folks knee-jerked to execute him, then folks knee-jerked to completely exonerate him. Both of those reactions are things you just cannot do until you see actual evidence.

Unless he actually trafficked the minor then he shouldn't be charged with that.

He was (allegedly) attempting to have sex with a minor which is prostitution not trafficking.

Well then the Tenn Law is shite. Prostitution and trafficking are two different things.

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

Was he trafficking people for sex? No.
Was he attempting to have sex with a minor? Yes = prostitution.

You can continue to state that we dont know this and dont know that. I don't really care. I'm going by what has been stated in the news.

States have started to create laws that are all inclusive for example Alabama has terroristic threats which include threats against people in general. Are those really terroristic threats? It's just a threat. Quit trying to make something worse than what it is.

I'm not defending or saying he is guilty. My issue is the crime verbiage. Which looks worse and which is actually true to what crime he committed. Prostitution or trafficking? What was his intent?

Dude has went off the deep end. Put him in jail and throw away the key.

I wonder if Passink will tweet about this as much as he did when the charges were dropped.