A legal loophole is allowing a Washington state man accused of child sex crimes to view child pornography in jail.Just the possession of child porn, or the viewing thereof, will land you in jail and rightfully so. So the law is letting him victimize children all over again under the false notion of being able to see the evidence for his own defense. However, it's nothing that he hasn't already seen and I doubt any jury will even need to see anything more than a few screenshots as proof of guilt. There's nothing on those tapes that could be used as a defense.
Weldon Marc Gilbert is acting as his own lawyer in the case, and that means he's entitled to review the evidence.
The evidence in the case includes more than 100 videos seized from Gilbert's Lake Tapps home after his 2007 arrest. Authorities say some of the footage was shot by Gilbert.
Exit question: what's stopping Gilbert from simply staying in jail, getting housed and fed at taxpayer expense, and simply indulging himself with not just his own child porn but others as well under the auspices of mounting a legal defense ad infinitum as he could just keep appealing and dragging out the process for years? An AP report: