Cognitive ability varies significantly by age. Possibly the old man's command of reality dropped below the average law enforcement worker's. Tax money feeders ridding the world of old nuts is easy pickings.
Posted on 05/29/2014 8:23:09 PM PDT by raccoonradio
NEWARK (WABC) -- A legendary radio disc jockey died while awaiting trial on federal pedophile charges.
78-year old Dave Herman died in federal custody at the Essex County Jail in Newark.
His attorney says he appears to have suffered an aneurysm of a major blood vessel near the heart. He says Herman was rushed to the hospital late Wednesday from the county jail after complaining of chest pains. No official cause of death has been announced.
Herman was being held on charges of attempting to transport a 7-year-old from New Jersey to the Virgin Islands for a sexual liaison.
The "girl" was actually a detective in the Bergen County prosecutor's office. Herman was facing 10 years in federal prison.
He was last in federal court in Newark earlier this year. Several supporters, including Herman's daughter, turned up at the brief hearing,
"He was talkative, he was engaged, he was vibrant. It's hard for a 78 year old to be in jail," said defense attorney Mark Agnifilo. "It's tragic that it had to end this way,:"
For a quarter century from 1972 to 1998, Herman was one of the defining personalities on New York rock radio on WNEW-FM.
He had been living in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
He was arrested at the airport there in October.
Herman had pleaded not guilty to the federal charge, but was denied bail.
Agnifilo had suggested that Herman was duped by an undercover police officer.
Yes...and sorry to hear of the abuse you went through. I recall Jackson referring to wine as “Jesus Juice”.
Seeing Jackson in the painting reminds me of the joke that “only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich, white, woman”.
You know why it's so hard to prosecute cases like this? Because the prosecution has no way of getting around a defendant who simply says: "Yeah, I said/did all those things. But I knew I was talking to an adult, not a child." Or in the Dave Herman case, the defense could very well have been based on a strategy that Herman knew all along that the child was fictitious.
If it sounds strange, just step back and ask yourself how a TV network can go out and set up an entire series of shows about catching child sex predators ... and yet none of the people involved in any of those cases is ever prosecuted.
Cognitive ability varies significantly by age. Possibly the old man's command of reality dropped below the average law enforcement worker's. Tax money feeders ridding the world of old nuts is easy pickings.
But the organization that worked with Dateline has a record of getting them prosecuted (it also mentioned it on the shows at the very end)
>>Number of predators convicted due to
Perverted-Justice.com since June 2004:
588
http://perverted-justice.com
I don’t think Dateline is doing the sting operations any more but past episodes showed that certain perps did get prosecuted.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/dateline-catch-a-predator-case-223775
An acquittal, but:
>>Roisman’s is the only case that went to trial; the other 28 men pleaded guilty.
From Wiki on “To Catch a Predator” (Long Beach)
>> During this investigation, the presence of the Dateline sting operation in town was leaked online through a Craigslist internet posting. Nonetheless, 32 convictions resulted from this segment, which aired on January 30 and February 6, 2007.
I believe Dateline had to stop doing the sting operations because every NBC employee who worked on those segments was a potential witness in a criminal case down the road -- and their legal bills would have been enormous. I find it interesting that the one case that went to trial resulted in a complete acquittal of the defendant as well as a scathing criticism of Dateline by the judge in the case. And the article references a threat of a lawsuit against NBC by the defendant, too.
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