A view from the bench, a podcast about my experiences and perceptions in the courtroom dealing with the trial of major cases over a legal career spanning almost five decades. The first case I’ll discuss took place not long after I first took the bench. I call it the Scooby Doo child sex case. Sometimes facts truly are stranger than fiction. I won’t name the defendant but I’ll call him Scooby Doo. He modified a Volkswagen bus, shortened it, and painted it to look like the bus in the Scooby Doo cartoon and movie. He drove it around, was seen around local schools and was generally seen as a kind of eccentric but harmless guy. Sometime after moving in with a family, Scooby Doo triggered an internet task force on the lookout for online sexual predators and an investigation started. Eventually, the task force contacted the local district attorney and Scooby Doo was arrested on multiple counts of possession of child pornography.
