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Shockingly, This Teacher Did Something Inappropriate to Students

Apr 7th, 2009

 

Allegedly. 

Louis Levine, a Tennessee science teacher, was arrested this morning for producing child pornography. 

Levine's house has an outbuilding outfitted with a waterbed, booze, marijuana, and lots of hidden cameras. Kids have gone there since as far back as the '80s and Levine has videotaped the results. Hundreds of videotapes of those results were found in Levine's bedroom.

He's now facing federal charges due to something that sounds like a technicality: "under a provision for interstate and foreign commerce, because the video camera and tapes he used were made in Japan."

 

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Comment ( 1 )

Federal courts in the US only have jurisdiction on crimes involving interstate (or international) commerce and in order to prosecute someone for a crime in Federal court, the prosecutors have to allege some connection to interstate commerce. In this case, because all the acts were committed in a single state, the prosecutor had to resort to the use of a Japanese camera to get the case into Federal court. Not sure why they are so keen on being on Federal court versus state court, but this is how you have to do it.

fabul1st commented on Apr 07 09 at 5:38 pm

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