“Charlie Sheen and the Journalist”
Charlie Sheen, the 44 year old actor and star of the TV comedy "Two and a Half Men," is only the recent celebrity to fall prey to the Colorado criminal justice system. Remember Kobe Bryant, he managed to wiggle free from Colorado after paying an undisclosed amount to his victim. Sheen will not be that lucky, and others have suffered far worse.
According to reports in the Aspen Times, Sheen will likely take a plea next week sending him to jail for 15 to 45 days on charges of domestic violence. Sheen, no stranger to violence or the police, is accused of holding a knife to his wife's throat and greatening to kill her during an argument while vacationing in Aspen, Colorado.
Here is the distortion, a freelance journalist agrees to meet Michelle Sage, a 39 year old police officer from Canon City, Colorado, for lunch at a busy Chili's restaurant. The journalist tells his colleagues about the meeting, and tells Sage he knows she is an undercover cop - Sage does not deny it. The officer has been posing as a mother and daughter looking for fun. The journalist has pointed out dozens of fatal inconsistencies in her story to both the officer and his colleagues. He agrees to meet her for lunch to out her, and ask for an interview.
While on route to the meeting, the journalist is arrested in a violent police raid of his car 30 miles from the restaurant where he agreed to meet Sage. He is charged with attempted sexual assault of a minor by a person in the position of trust and other sex offense related crimes.
Remember, there is no real minor to be in the position of trust with or to sexually assault - it is an actual Minority Report scam, created in the mind of Sage and the Thought Police. However, in the small town dominated by prisons, 13 in one county, the journalist is convicted on all counts by a jury that includes a good friend of one of the police officers testifying.
During the trial, Judge Julie Marshall refuses to allow the journalist's colleague to testify, does not require the DA to turn over evidence favorable to the defense, and refuses to admit into evidence written documents favorable to the defendant. The journalist was sentenced to LIFE.
Sheen gets 15 to 45 days for holding a knife to his wife's throat and threatening to kill her, while a journalist gets life for pursuing a strop to a Chili's restaurant.
Colorado's distortion? Come to the Rocky Mountain Empire for vacation and murder, but don't come looking for the truth...or justice.
Irony - The first week the journalist is in prison, a member of his jury sends him the John Geishas nonfiction novel, "The Innocent Man."
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