Reply #42: this is why i find discussing law with laymen who don't understand it - tiring

[paulsby]

what you are saying is simply false. you do realize that the law VARIES based on jurisdiction. in NY state, for example, it's perfectly legal for women to walk around in public topless. doesn't matter who is offended.

in oregon, it's legal to walk around buck naked (top and bottom) (or so i am told. i am not an expert on oregon law. i may be wrong on this, but see below)

*********the law in WA state is EXACTLY how i stated it (since you were giving me hypotheticals and i work in this jurisdiction).

here is the RCW that would apply to skinny dipping example. RCW is the LAW.

you are astoundingly wrong. not surprising for a layman discussing thelaw. what remains to be seen is if you will have the intellectual honesty to admit your error.

RCW9a.88.010
1) A person is guilty of indecent exposure if he or she intentionally makes any open and obscene exposure of his or her person or the person of another knowing that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm. The act of breastfeeding or expressing breast milk is not indecent exposure.

so two people at night on a deserted beach skinny dipping are NOT **intentionally making an open and obscene exposure of their person KNOWING the such conduct is LIKELY to casue reasonable affront or alarm.

period.

if i skinny dip at a deserted beach at night (YOUR SCENARIO) i most definitely did NOT meet each element of this crime.

and any cop that arrested me 1) is a moron 2) would see his case nolle pros'd by the prosecutor 3) and if he was my trainee, would get a tongue lashing

i am not going to get into all the nuances, so i'll give you one reason why it's not a crime.

assuming the beach is deserted, and it's night, such conduct is NOT ******likely**** to cause reasonable affront or alarm

if you did it in broad daylight on a crowded kirkland beach, it WOULD

there's your lesson in the law.

i will await your response to see if you have the intelletual honesty to admit you are wrong