Another one for the WTF files. Dallas dad not guilty for taking tween daughter's phone. Yes, you read that right. A father was arrested for taking his 12 year old daughters iphone.
http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/26/dallas-dad-not-guilty-taking-tween-daughters-phone/79355512/A dad takes a 12 year old's iphone after he finds inappropriate texts in September 2013. You think that is the end of the story?
You would be wrong.
His ex, the girls mother, calls the police on him for doing so. Instead of telling her to work it out with her ex, they come to his house and demand the phone be returned. He refuses, as he considers it a parental issue, not a police problem.
Three months later he gets a citation in the mail for theft of property less than $50 in value, a Class C misdemeanor. They offer a plea deal if he returns the phone.
He hires an lawyer and requested a jury trial in municipal court.
The city lawyer turns up the heat and changes the charge to a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by six months in jail and a $2,000 fine. A warrant was issued, and the dad was arrested at home in the middle of the night in April 2015. He had to post a bond of $1500 to get out of jail.
Oh by the way, his ex is married to a cop....Hmmmmmmmmmm.
The judge ordered the jury to find Jackson not guilty after ruling the state failed to present sufficient evidence to continue the case. Which they did, yesterday, in January of 2016. The girl is now 15.
His lawyer will now fill a federal complaint for civil rights violations for the way his client was treated by police and the city lawyer. He probably has a good case.
What a waste of taxpayer money over what should be a private matter.
He still has the phone.
