ಠ_ಠ “To be fair”, that prosecutor is still a piece of shit IMO, and his choices and actions led directly to the suicide of one of the actors. And like the director accused him of, I also wouldn’t...
So if Niccollai was to be successful, he needed to get creative: “I knew that if you spend some time in a law library, you're always going to be able to find something that is compatible with the course of action you want to take. So I went into the library, did a lot of research, and came up with something that would help us get the film out of our county.”
To find his legal weaponry, Niccollai went back in time—to 1796 to be exact. He found an anti-fornication law from the 18th century that was technically still active in New Jersey. It was an ancient statute prohibiting people from having—and in some cases even thinking about—sex.
Kim Pope couldn’t believe what she was hearing when she finally learned what she was being prosecuted with. “I was charged with fornication, conspiracy to fornicate, acts of carnal indecency, conspiracy to commit acts of carnal indecency and, I swear to God, private lewdness. These were old, old laws that had been around for hundreds of years, and nobody had ever bothered to take them off the books. I mean, if you enforce those laws, then every person over the age of 12 would be in jail. I don't know anybody that hasn't conspired to fornicate, whether they succeeded or not. It was just so absurd I thought they had to be kidding.”
To be fair, Niccollai saw the absurdity in the laws too. He understood that prosecuting everyone who engaged in intercourse outside of marriage was a ridiculous thought: “I'm not going to sit here and tell you that in my tenure as first assistant prosecutor, we initiated thousands of prosecutions for adultery or fornication. We didn't. But the fact is the laws were on the books and we knew we could use them. Is that a problem with our system? Maybe. This was my introduction to the power of the prosecutor.” And Niccollai aimed that power at Deep Sleep.
ಠ_ಠ “To be fair”, that prosecutor is still a piece of shit IMO, and his choices and actions led directly to the suicide of one of the actors. And like the director accused him of, I also wouldn’t be surprised if he had something to do with the movie “mysteriously” crossing state lines and getting on the FBIs radar either.
Anyways, bizarre/interesting read. Thanks for sharing, chromakode.
ಠ_ಠ “To be fair”, that prosecutor is still a piece of shit IMO, and his choices and actions led directly to the suicide of one of the actors. And like the director accused him of, I also wouldn’t be surprised if he had something to do with the movie “mysteriously” crossing state lines and getting on the FBIs radar either.
Anyways, bizarre/interesting read. Thanks for sharing, chromakode.