Columnist: 'Prosecutors Need to Settle' Orlando Weekly Case
By AAN Staff
february 20, 2008 08:58 am
Legal proceedings for
the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation's case against three
Weekly employees and the paper on charges related to adult advertising are scheduled to get underway later this month.
Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas thinks the case, which "smacks of payback," should be settled, and suggests a way forward: "Immediately drop all charges against the employees," he writes. "Drop all felony charges against the
Weekly and ask the judge to withhold adjudication on misdemeanor charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. In exchange, the
Weekly reimburses all costs and agrees in writing to stop taking ads from prostitutes and unlicensed massage parlors."