Where was Alan Dershowitz for Gordon Chavez?
ALBUQUERQUE – Gordon Chavez, 36, a former probation officer with the New Mexico Corrections Department’s Division of Probation and Parole, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on charges related to the sexual assault of a probationer whom he supervised. Chavez previously pled guilty to one count of violating the victim’s right to bodily integrity when he touched her breasts against her will. Chavez also pled guilty to one count of making material false statements to the FBI when he denied both touching the breasts of females whom he supervised and asking for naked photos of them.
According to court documents, Chavez engaged in escalating sexually inappropriate behavior toward the victim, a woman under his supervision since May 2012. As part of her probation and parole, the victim was required to attend mandatory meetings at Chavez’s office. During one of those meetings on Nov. 26, 2012, Chavez fondled the victim’s breast through and underneath her shirt without the victim’s consent. Chavez was later captured on a recording apologizing for his actions.
During that same Nov. 26, 2012, meeting with victim, Chavez also instructed the victim to bring revealing photos of herself on her cellular phone to the next office visit scheduled for Nov. 30, 2012. When the victim brought clothed photos of herself, Chavez specifically asked her to bring naked photos. That conversation was also captured on a recording.
On Dec. 4, 2012, FBI agents conducted a recorded interview of Chavez during which he denied touching the breasts of any female under his supervision. He also denied asking any female under his supervision for naked photographs.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/former-state-probation-officer-sentenced-prison-sexually-assaulting-woman-under-his
“Flynn did not commit a crime by lying,” Dershowitz said during a Fox News interview Monday. “The lie has to be material to the investigation. And if the FBI already knew the answer to the question and only asked him the question in order to give him an opportunity to lie, his answer, even if false, was not material to the investigation.”
Nobody batted an eye when this charmer pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges and lying to the FBI, his defense went along with it too. The judge accepted it, and he was sentenced. Since they had recordings, the FBI "already knew the answer", and yet Alan Dershowitz didn't come out to help this guy out, get him a reduced sentence at least, if this wasn't material to the investigation, why did he also plead guilty to lying to the FBI?
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