To Catch a Predator

As my many readers know, I have lamented that our civil judges have been usurped by the DA's office. Here's a blurb from the PE about Judge Dallas Holmes who normally presides over civil matters. However, here he is handling a case involving a defendant from the popular program To catch a predator.

Sex-sting charges against man dropped
A Riverside judge has dismissed
attempted child molestation charges against a Twentynine Palms man arrested
during a "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" Internet sex sting in Mira
Loma.
Superior Court Judge Dallas Holmes' decision to release William
Lawrence Havey, 25, on Aug. 13 came after a jury deadlocked after a day and a
half of deliberations.
Havey was one of 51 men arrested during the three-day
sting in January 2006.
So far, 19 men have entered guilty pleas, two men have
warrants out for failure to appear and one man died before his case was
adjudicated.

Interestingly, the jury deadlocked. I wonder if any one interviewed them to determine what held them up.