"laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE" > wrote in message
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8610453/
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> Sex offender jailed for possessing Maxim magazine
> MSNBC.com
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> Updated: 12:38 a.m. ET July 18, 2005
> MIAMI - Authorities in Florida are sending convicted sex offenders to
> jail for violating the terms of their probation by having men's
> magazines such as Maxim.
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> Andrew Calderon, 23, was jailed for six days before a judge ordered
> his release after officers found a racy poster and calendar and copies
> of Maxim in his home earlier this year.
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> A judge will decide next month whether Calderon's probation should be
> revoked or extended and whether the materials were innocent.
>
> Corrections officials said Calderon, who was on probation for the
> sexual battery of a mentally disabled relative, committed a violation
> by having "sexually stimulating" material.
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> But in court papers, Calderon's lawyer, Mel Black, described Maxim as
> far from obscene.
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> "This is beyond schoolmarmism here. It's really mind-blowing," Black
> said.
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> In another case, sex offender Joseph Conte, 56, was arrested when
> authorities found a copy of a sex manual in a drawer next to the bed
> the former schoolteacher shares with his wife. A judge later dismissed
> the probation complaint.
>
> Florida authorities have increased their surveillance of sexual
> offenders since two young girls were slain earlier this year, both of
> them allegedly attacked by sex offenders who were free on probation.
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> How about throwing convicted speeders and drunk drivers in prison if
> caught with Motor Trend?
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>