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Sex charges dropped due to suspect's ill health

what a wonderful legal dodge. I know many who used the same excuse to avoid the military draft, just get the family doctor (friend) to sign his name to a piece of paper. Works every time.

I hope someone follows up on this story and lets us know if he actually kicks over or if this was, as it appears, a way to avoid prosecution.

Perhaps some hard cold cash to the victim would be more appropriate pending approval of the victim of course. Or would that cause a complete heart demise?

Huh...where I come from, you don't get off the hook for attempted pedophilia because your sick. Tough luck buddy - if he dies, he dies. The only person who misses him will be his attorney!

Well idiots....first of all he's innocent until proven guilty. Second there was NO victim. Third an acute aortic dissection is the same thing that killed John Ritter suddenly and without warning.

If you don't like the justice system, work to change it. Maybe this dirt bag deserves to die. Maybe he deserves to get 10 years in prison, then live for 40 more years afterward. Either way, this whole thing is just a symptom of much larger problems in our country and society.

NO VICTIM???
This time. How many other girkls has he been involved with?
I'm not willing to take a chance on him. Lock him up.

Oh boo-hoo!! This scum deserves to be tried anyway. Then registered as the pedophile and sexual deviant that he is.

As someone who has had the same malady, I can tell you that it can be taken care of with a fairly simple operation. After a short stay in the hospital, everything is right as rain.

He shouldn't be given a free pass just because he is afraid of the stress that a trial would give him.

Hmmmm, sounds too convenient to me...

Ben Winslow,

This was so appalling, I looked the case up on Pacer to see how Canton dodged.

Go look up the defense motion to dismiss on page 12. The defense admits to a "series of inappropriate online chats..." If that isn't intent, then what is? And why was he going to plea if he was innocent? Get the chats.

After reading that long winded repetitive motion, ask yourself, where does assistant federal defender #6238 Ben Hamilton get time to do that level of research?

Did our tax dollars pay for Canton's defense? Does Hamilton produce 14 pages of research of obscure cases for all his federal defendants?

Hamilton claims Canton is incompetent to stand trial. Canton must be competent in some fashion, he's a PHd and wrote a book about internet learning. Meanwhile, his doctor claims he is hyper-meticulous in monitoring and documentation of his blood pressure. Which is it, incompetence, or hyper meticulous monitoring... and ghosting of legal opinions?

Hamilton claims that Canton will be denied due process. Look at all the motions and arguments in this case on Pacer. Denial of due process or mockery of due process?

Ben Winslow, find out.