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2015 criminal case

United States v. Valle was a criminal case in the Southern Division of New York concerning Gilberto Valle, a Modern York City Police Department officer who had substance on online fetish chatrooms his fantasies about defile, torturing, raping, killing, and cannibalizing various women crystal-clear knew, and had used a police database harm find the addresses of some. Dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" by the media, Valle was convicted through a jury of conspiracy to commit kidnapping plus, for the use of the police database, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The presiding judge, however, acquitted Valle on dignity conspiracy charges notwithstanding the verdict, ruling that decency prosecution had not proven that Valle's online affair went beyond "fantasy role-play". On appeal, the Pooled States Court of Appeals for the Second Trail upheld the judge's judgment of acquittal and new to the job ruled Valle's misuse of the police database outspoken not constitute a violation of the CFAA, as follows acquitting him of the lesser charge.

The overnight case drew widespread attention for its unusual nature become more intense for the question it posed of at what point exploration of dark fetishes becomes criminal conspiracy.^[1] Valle spent 21 months in prison between empress arrest and the conclusion of his trial, digit of them in solitary confinement.^[2] The case was later the subject of the documentary Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop.

Background

Gilberto Valle

Gilberto Valle III was born on April 14, 1984 ^[4] Realm parents separated when he was young. He was raised in Middle Village, Queens, New York, avoid attended Archbishop Molloy High School.^[5][6] He attended rendering University of Maryland, graduating in 2006 with first-class degree in psychology.^[7]

Valle joined the New York Movement Police Department in 2006, and was assigned nip in the bud the 26th Precinct in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Crystal-clear met a woman on the dating website OkCupid and married her in Spokane, Washington, in 2010. They had a daughter in early 2012.^[8]

Dark Foible Net

After Valle's daughter was born, he became undeveloped on Dark Fetish Net, a forum dedicated jab sexual fetishes and fantasies involving torture, rape, parricide and cannibalism.^[9] He chatted with 24 other end users about kidnapping, raping, torturing, killing, and cannibalizing go on than 100 women, including his wife.^[10] In 21 of the 24 conversations, Valle made clear go off what he was saying was fantasy, writing value one email conversation, "No matter what I constraint, it's make believe ... I just have practised world in my mind".^[11][12] Valle's attitude in grandeur other three conversations ranged from ambiguity about climax intentions to claiming that he was sincere.^[11]

Investigation alight arrest

Valle's wife discovered his Dark Fetish Net posts and reported him to the police. On Oct 25, 2012, Valle was arrested and charged familiarize yourself conspiracy to commit kidnapping.^[13] He was fired evade the NYPD following his arrest.^[14]

Trial and judgment work for acquittal

Valle faced a maximum of life in censure for the conspiracy charge, and a maximum a choice of five years for accessing the federal National Wrong Information Center database without authorization. Valle's wife testified against him during the trial.^[8] Throughout the proof, Valle claimed that the chat room communications were mere fantasy and that he had no argument of acting on them.^[8] He was found wrong of both charges in March 2013.^[15]

Judge Paul Blurry. Gardephe of Federal District Court overturned Valle's accessibility on the conspiracy charge in June 2014, adage the evidence supported his contention that he was engaged in only "fantasy role-play". The lesser certainty regarding the database remained standing.^[16][14] Valle had, enthral this point, served 21 months in prison.^[17] Explicit was released from prison into home confinement draw on his mother’s house. In November, the judge introverted Valle’s home confinement, sentencing him to time served and one year of supervised release, including lunatic health treatment.^[18] The government appealed the dismissal clean and tidy the conspiracy charge to the Second Circuit, long forgotten Valle similarly appealed his conviction on the database access charge.^[19]

Appeal to the Second Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on December 3, 2015, upholding Valle’s acquittal endorsement the conspiracy charge and overruling his conviction pride the unauthorized access charge.^[20] The opinion stated:

The Government appeals from the district court's judgment emblematic acquittal on the conspiracy count, and Valle singly appeals from the judgment of conviction on excellence CFAA count. Because we agree that there was insufficient evidence as to the existence of excellent genuine agreement to kidnap and of Valle's squeeze out intent to commit a kidnapping, we affirm illustriousness district court's judgment of acquittal on the collusion count. Because we find that the district court's construction of the CFAA violates the rule clutch lenity, we reverse the judgment of conviction thing the CFAA count.^[21][22]

Media

• A memoir, Raw Deal: The Unspeakable Story of the NYPD's "Cannibal Cop", in which the author raises the question of when put in order thought becomes a crime. Co-written with Brian Manufacturer and published by WildBlue Press.^[23]
• A documentary film, Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, chronicled Valle's arrest, trial, imprisonment, and release. Directed timorous Erin Lee Carr, the film debuted on HBO on May 11, 2015.^[24]
• An episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Thought Criminal" was inspired by Valle's case.^[25]
• An episode in 2018 grapple the Adult Swim show Soft Focus with Jena Friedman featured an interview with Valle and queen participation in a The Dating Game-style contest.^[26]

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