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Michael Robertson, 32, had allegedly taken cell phone pictures and videos up women’s skirts and dresses in a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley. He faced up to 2-1/2 years in jail, but Robertson asked for the case to be dismissed. The court denied the request, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned that ruling. Why? Because the law only prohibited secretly photographing or videotaping a person who is “nude or partially” so. “In sum, we interpret the phrase ... in the same way that the defendant does, namely, to mean a person who is partially clothed but who has one or more of the private parts of body exposed in plain view at the time that the putative defendant secretly photographs her,” the high court ruled. The state legislature only took one day to write and pass legislation to close the loophole, and the governor signed it immediately. (MS/CNN) ...I have no words for this. None of more than four letters anyway.
Original Publication Date: 16 March 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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