Bob Allen has called it a legal day.
"...convicted in November 2007 of soliciting oral sex from an undercover police officer at a Titusville park...", the former Florida state legislator "...resigned a day after he was sentenced to six months of probation. He was ordered to pay a $250 fine and other costs.The sentence was delayed pending appeals to the Brevard Circuit Court and the 5th District Court of Appeal. Both appeals were rejected." (Florida Today, 2/23/09)
Plans to appeal the case to the highest bench in the land were scrapped due to the annoying SCOTUS habit of picking and choosing which cases to hear.
Meanwhile, Allen's former colleague, Brevard County Sheriff Jack Parker waxed budgetary woes with a slap of the old Fear card.
Recent cuts led the department to increase the caseload for probation and parole officers who monitor sex offenders and other high-risk felons. (FT, 2/23/09)
(Love the verbal link between sex offenders--which according to state senator Nan Rich (D-Sunrise) could soon include man on animal--) and high risk offenders).
Parker said that local probation officers already are stretched too thin. "In 1985 to 1987, our crime rate was twice what it is right now," Parker said. "We don't want to relive those days, but we're seeing the beginning of it right now. This is how it started, by cutting probation."According to officials, probation officers who monitor the most dangerous felons, including sex and drug offenders , likely would take on nearly 100 cases each.
Dangerous felons sort of like Bob Allen.
D-OH! Silly me. Soliciting a cop in a Florida public restroom isn't a felony.
Yet.
