Fascinating article in TIME. Suspecting that his ex-wife had created a sham Facebook account for a fictional teen girl to entrap him, David Voelkert interacted with the account, soliciting a hit-man to kill his ex-wife among other things. But not before writing up his true state of mind in an affidavit, wherein he stated that he was going to lie, etc., based on his suspicion that the account he was interacting with was his ex-wife’s puppet.

Volkert was actually arrested by the FBI, but when he produced the affidavit, the case against him was dismissed. At the child-custody hearing where both ex’s tried to make each other look as unfit-to-be-a-parent as possible – the ex-wife’s plan in creating the sham account – her plan backfired.

My questi0n is whether people are going to start using affidavits like this to give them cover for real bad behavior if they get caught. “No, see, this was all a joke, just like it says in my affidavit from before I started any of this.” Would that work?

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