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| Joseph Peschges was arrested in a sex sting after a cop encouraged his groping. |
St. Paul has been cracking down on public stranger sex in recent years. Trolling public parks, they've nabbed dozens of men who were down for a little of this and a little of that.
But one judge just ruled that the cops have been using inappropriate tactics in their sting operations. Namely, the cops are pretending to be, you know, into it.
Duane Hodges, a St. Anthony man arrested last summer for indecent exposure in Crosby Farms Park, was acquitted last month when a judge ruled that because Hodges had exposed himself in the privacy of an undercover officer's car, and the officer had portrayed himself as a willing participant, Hodges wasn't guilty of anything.
In other words, if two men park in a relatively private spot, and one man asks the other to pull down his pants, there is, to paraphrase George Constanza, there's nothing wrong with that.
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