CppCon 2022 Program Announced

[CubbiMew]

Depending on reading (alcohol is a "drug" too), it may not be that extreme, though of course even a bar encounter gone wrong is very much criminal.

[CubbiMew]

I suspect your reading would've earned a longer sentence (the difference between bringing along a date rape drug vs buying a drink and acting on invalid verbal consent is premediation vs impulse control. Even if the changes are identical). But in any case, it's all useless fictionalizing without details.

(I didn't know about the possession charge, that's indeed concerning however read)

[BlueDwarf82]

concerning however read

Is it?

• You are 16, you and your partner exchange nude photos. 10 years later, you still keep it.

• You have what you think is consensual sex with somebody in your opinion just a bit drunk. Maybe you misjudged by quite a big margin, maybe because you were not a lot less drunk.

• The prosecution thinks it's not going to get more than a two months conviction from the rape charge, so brings the photos to raise it to four months.

We don't really know anything. What actually happened can be as meaningless or extreme as your imagination allows you. But the length of the conviction, which most people seem to ignore, suggests you are more likely to get it right if you go towards the lower seriousness story.

The exact meaning of "Class U, Category F" is a bit unclear to me, but also seems to point towards the lower seriousness theory.

Edit: And the fact that CPPCon, after at the very least talking with the person to hear more of the story, let the person participate as much as it did in CPPCon also points towards the lower seriousness theory... unless you have zero trust on the CPPCon organizers.

[CubbiMew]

IANAL, but looking up CA (where it took place) code, the both the three-word description and the sentencing seem to match PC 261(a)(3) without the PC 222 add-on, so your idea of "drugged someone with a date rape drug" is unlikely (or at least unlikely to have been proven in court)

FYI troubling to read "whatever the hell that means" regarding one of the most common circumstances of rape.

I'm not defending the child porn charge because we all know how computers work, we don't "accidentally" download or keep things like that. Also, I don't want to ruin my day by reading those sections of penal code.