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https://levoritzlaw.com/distribution-images-without-consent/Is it Illegal to Share Intimate Pictures Without Consent?
Posting and sharing sexually explicit or provocative content without your permission and against your will is considered a criminal act. Fortunately, New York has already criminalized and codified revenge porn. This, and other related offenses, as the criminal code states, can be the foundation of a strong prosecution that can ultimately lead to the arrest of your abuser.
Is Sextortion a Crime?
Sextortion is a colloquial term similar to revenge porn. What should a victim of sextortion do? Victims can take refuge in the criminal justice system to help them in their fight against sextortion and other related cyberabuse. Moreover, although the law allows complainants to file charges with the New York Police Department or any county police without assistance, it is highly recommended that you obtain a lawyer who can properly represent your case in the criminal context. Sextortion is a crime, but the law doesnt use that term. With an attorneys expertise, your case can be handled professionally and can be kept out of the public notice.
What If the Images Were Taken Without My Consent?
Further possible criminal charges if you were unaware that photographs were being taken of you include Penal Law 250.55 and 250.60, Dissemination of an Unlawful Surveillance Image, a potential misdemeanor or felony crime, given that the photographs uploaded were produced without your permission, in violation of Criminal Law 250.45 or 250.50, Unlawful Surveillance. While the law is more specific in its language, if a person records you without consent while having intercourse or takes intimate images of your body and does so for money, amusement, or sexual excitement, he or she will face up to a year in prison.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,180 posts)I know people get sick of hearing this from me and others, but I dont see cons ever being held accountable.
Not cons in positions of power anyway, and for everyone someone might point out to me there are 50 who should be and arent.
BOSSHOG
(37,253 posts)Im not sick of hearing it. Cons dont know how to lead, govern or manage money. But they do what is important to them, manipulate the legal system. Billionaires arent overly concerned about elected officials, theyd rather invest in the judiciary.
MyOwnPeace
(16,974 posts)I'm sure we've not heard (or seen!) the last of this issue!
Emile
(23,504 posts)2naSalit
(87,252 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,272 posts)WhiteTara
(29,761 posts)This was done in Congress.
Maraya1969
(22,550 posts)WhiteTara
(29,761 posts)orleans
(34,145 posts)PortTack
(32,872 posts)So not just shared on the congressional floor.
jmowreader
(50,643 posts)It says members are privileged from arrest except in cases of treason, felony or breach of the peace. First Degree revenge porn is a felony. You remember when Larry Craig, Idahos Least Embarrassing Politician, got arrested for trying to pick up gay bathroom sex in the Minneapolis Airport. They hauled his ass right to the slammer and didnt care what he did for a living.
The only remaining question: if Marjorie Three Affairs is hauled off to jail for turning C-SPAN into a porn channel, will they arrest her on the House floor, in her office or on the street
WhiteTara
(29,761 posts)How does that jive?
TheBlackAdder
(28,306 posts)Gore1FL
(21,221 posts)It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Their obsession with Hunter Biden may play well to the base, but I don't know who else cares.
Marcuse
(7,591 posts)carpetbagger
(4,398 posts)She's pretty immune from the committee presentation. For emailing constituents, the courts would have to determine that the function was not legislative but rather political. The last big ruling was US v Brewster.
WhiteTara
(29,761 posts)carpetbagger
(4,398 posts)The acceptance of a bribe was considered to be a crime independent of whatever was legislatively promised. This was in the 1970s. In the decision, the USSC spoke of nonlegislative duties, including newsletters, and leaned towards noninclusion of that as legislative functions.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,782 posts)The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
Has eMpTy committed treason, felony, or breach of the peace? Was the mass email a "speech or debate in either House", or can she "be questioned" about it outside Congress?
carpetbagger
(4,398 posts)I think it would be a stretch to include the speech/pic show as a felony. It could be prosecuted as such but would be unlikely to be the kind of thing intended by the clause and would likely be vacated by a sympathetically conservative and paid for court.
The email issue is more open. US v. Brewster spoke about nonlegislative functions, including newsletters. I would think that a general political screed by email about Hunter Biden would not be protected. I think a reporting of the speech may be protected. I don't care to see Hunter Biden's winkie, the Russian pee tape if it is real, or whatever Greene has in the box of VHS tapes, so I don't know what Greene's thing was in the email. .
TheBlackAdder
(28,306 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,220 posts)The law firm is opining on the law of New York, not on her actions. Each state has its own laws. Unless I missed something, it is almost certainly not New York law that will apply.
druidity33
(6,460 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,220 posts)A lot of people don't understand that we have more than 50 different sets of criminal laws in the US, and what is a crime in one state is not always a crime in another jurisdiction.