On a break. It's a hearing where the attorneys are supplementing the record with additional information necessary for the appeal due to evidentiary rulings during the trial. It's called a proffer, so the Court of Appeals can evaluate how things might have happened if the judge had not excluded the evidence that's now being put on record. Basically, I sit here, rule on any objections that might come up, but don't have to pay any attention at all to the merits of what's being presented. Boring as all get out, which is why this crap rolled downhill and on to me.
On the sexting issue, I didn't mean that the sexting is a big criminal issue, but rather the act is causing lots of problems. Teens email these photos of their junk and whatever, and those photos are then out there. Where it becomes a problem for me (law-wise) is all of the after effects. Reproducing the photos and videos, then distributing them. Assaults based on what is in the photos/videos, who has them, who saw them, who commented on them, etc. Thefts of devices in efforts to remove the images from distribution, including a burglary. Telecommunication harassment relating to the images. And, one suicide I know of based on comments relating to images that got distributed. I don't get the willingness to spread images the way teens do, but I'm now 45 so I'm probably out of touch, so to speak, with respect to this.
