Christian Ziegler is accused of recording a s*x act without consent, police said in a statement on Thursday.
A woman with whom he and his wife had a prior consensual sexual relationship previously alleged that he r*ped her.
According to heavily redacted police documents, Mr Ziegler, his wife, Bridget Ziegler and the unnamed woman had planned a threesome in October, but Mrs Ziegler was unable to attend.
Mr Ziegler instead arrived alone, the complaint alleged, and assaulted the woman.
But police in Sarasota say they reviewed hours of video evidence and conducted nearly a dozen interviews and determined that it was unlikely that any sexual battery took place during the 4 October encounter.
"Ziegler recorded the encounter on his cell phone," Sarasota Police Department said in the Thursday statement.
"The video showed that the encounter was likely consensual. Therefore, detectives were unable to develop probable cause to charge Ziegler with Sexual Battery."
Better to be charged with voyeurism than r*pe, am I right?
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I hate women so much it's unreal.
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I doubt that's why he was filming.
Someone should market a blackbox recorder where the video can only be extracted with a warrant or something.
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Foids would be marching in the streets if such a device were filed for patent.
"Noooooooooo we need to be able to destroy your life if we don't get our way noooooooooo"
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That starts with dudes dodging r*pe charges and ends up with all citizens being forced to wear bodycams 24/7.
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That would still violate 2 party consent laws.
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2 party consent laws don't apply to homemade porn.
Assuming you are doing this in your own home.
If you do it at their house it's another thing.
But it would be more difficult to set up hidden cameras there anyways.
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I think the issue here is the woman claimed she didn't consent.
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