![]() ![]() Some of the jurors hugged Kim outside the downtown Columbus courthouse when the three-day trial was over. Kim’s attorney, Bernard Brody of Atlanta, said the case should never have gone to trial. ![]() If convicted, Kim would have faced a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence and a maximum term of life in prison and/or a $250,000 fine up to a lifetime term of supervised release, and mandatory sex offender registration if he had been convicted. He was tried this week in the Middle District of Georgia in front of Judge Clay Land this week. 16 on the federal charge of attempted online enticement of a minor. Though he was arrested by Columbus Police in early November, Kim was indicted Nov. Ji Won Kim, 26 was one of 21 men arrested in November as part of a multi-law enforcement agency sting in which investigators posed as children online. ![]() It took a federal jury slightly more than an hour Wednesday to find an Auburn, Ala., man accused of being a child sexual predator not guilty. Well a Georgia man stood up and fought back! Facing a minimum mandatory 10 years in prison, he took his case to trial AND WON! We all know what usually happens the feds threaten decades in prison but offer a plea deal that, given the risk, most defendants grab. We all hear about these police stings, where law enforcement officers post or respond to ads on ADULT dating sites and then, after engaging in a sexually charged conversation and some strong leading, pull a “switch-a-roo” and announce the fictitious person is fictitiously under-age. ![]()
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