Man Acquitted of Upskirting Charge for Being Sexually Attracted to Gundams
You certainly didn’t read that title wrong: a man was acquitted of an upskirting charge against a woman for being sexually attracted to Gundams. Upskirting is when photos are taken under a person’s skirt.
Have you played any games from the Ace Attorney series? This is a game series where you control a defense attorney (most games you are Phoenix Wright), and you go to court to defend your clients with everything you’ve got, even calling a parrot to testify.
Man Acquitted of Upskirting Charge for Being Sexually Attracted to Gundams
ABEMA TV brought this Ace Attorney-style defense in a recent program that attracted attention. The case itself occurred in 2007. It was still the time of flip cell phones. A 24-year-old man was on an escalator and was accused of taking a photo up the skirt of the woman in front of him.
At the time, the woman noticed, confronted the man, and he apologized for what happened. The case went to court. During the trial, the accused claimed he had no voyeuristic photos. Now comes the “Ace Attorney” part of the case: the accused’s defense attorney then pointed his finger and shouted “Objection!” saying that his client had no photos of women because he was actually sexually attracted to Gundams and not women.
It’s worth noting that the accused’s phone was searched, and no photos of women were found. Apparently, what really happened that day was this: the woman in a skirt was in front of the man, and he had his phone open, but instead of taking photos, the man was actually admiring images of Gundams!
This didn’t save him, and the man was ultimately found guilty because, in his interaction with the woman, after she confronted him, he apologized. However, the lawyer didn’t give up and decided to appeal.
The lawyer then suspected that his client might have Asperger’s syndrome, people with this syndrome have difficulty with social interactions. The lawyer then used this to explain why the man had “confessed” to the crime when the woman confronted him.
A Rorschach test was then performed on the accused. The Rorschach test (popularly known as the “inkblot test”) is a pictorial psychological evaluation technique, commonly referred to as a projective test, or more recently, a method of self-expression.
However, all the answers the man gave in the test were “Pokémon”. The lawyer had already said that his client was an otaku. After the appeal, the man was acquitted of the crime as the court concluded that he had no sexual interest in either men or women.
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