Step Back, See the Forest for the Trees, Dudes

By Josh Marshall

July 9, 2014 7:21 p.m.

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I think we know our laws about sexting and purported sexual predation have gotten totally f’d up when, in order to prosecute a 17 year old for exchanging naked pictures with his 15 year old girlfriend, prosecutors get a warrant to compel the 17 year old boy to submit to what amounts to a mini-porn shoot with a police photographer.

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