A Decrease in M-Rated Sales to Kids 118
hammersuit writes "GameDaily Biz reports on a new undercover FTC study. From the article: 'Forty-two percent of the secret shoppers - children between the ages of 13 and 16 - who attempted to buy an M-rated video game without a parent were able to purchase one. In the 2003 shop, 69 percent of the shoppers were able to buy one. National sellers were much more likely to restrict sales of M-rated games. Only 35 percent of the secret shoppers were able to purchase such games there. Regional or local sellers sold M-rated games to the shoppers more frequently - 63 percent of the time.'"
Re:What does this have to do with anything? (Score:3, Informative)
But just because something is legal, doesn't mean you can't be arrested, convicted, and go to jail for it!
Re:What does this have to do with anything? (Score:3, Informative)
By Ellen Miller, Special to the News
November 16, 2005
GRAND JUNCTION - Allysan Isaac, 24, was held nearly a year in work release for something that a judge said Tuesday was not even illegal.
"You were incarcerated for a case that was not a crime," said Mesa County District Judge Brian Flynn, who presided over the case.
Flynn, the prosecutor and Isaac's defense attorney were unaware last year that the offense she was charged with was not a violation of the law.
No one had noticed that a prescription drug found in Isaac's possession, an anti-anxiety medication called Buspirone, is not a controlled substance.
A new defense attorney did.
Isaac, 24, "is clearly a troubled young woman with mental and emotional problems requiring pharmaceutical intervention," said her second lawyer, Wiley Christopher, who checked on Buspirone and found it was not a controlled substance.
But that was not the end of her legal troubles.
Isaac pleaded guilty last year to possession of Buspirone, which she had obtained through a prescription. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail and one year in work release.
In work release, she was receiving another prescription drug, Clonazepam, which is a controlled substance. Another inmate talked her into sharing a tablet.
So Isaac pleaded guilty to distributing Clonazepam and appeared before Flynn Tuesday for sentencing.
Christopher pleaded for probation and mental health treatment since her underlying offense, for which she was in work release, was not a crime.
Flynn agreed, as did the probation officer and the current prosecutor.
She was ordered to serve probation and receive intensive mental health treatment for passing her medication on to the fellow inmate.
District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said he had "no idea" why Isaac had been charged with and convicted of something that wasn't a crime.
The defense attorney who represented Isaac in the first case was also baffled. "I don't have an answer," assistant public defender John Burkey said. "Nobody caught it. The police were saying it was a controlled substance."
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