Judge to Determine Whether to Toss Porn Charges against John Mark Karr

Imagine after all that has transpired with the John Mark Karr circus that the five misdemeanor child porn charges in California are thrown out as well? Sound bizarre? Not when it comes to this case. John Mark Karr had recently rejected a plea deal offered. With the prospect of getting off scott-free, who wouldn’t? If these charges are dropped, Karr will have effectively been provided free transportation from Thailand to the US. No DNA in the JonBenet case, no suspect, and possibly no child porn charges. What a mess.

Judge Cerena Wong is set to consider Wednesday whether the five misdemeanor charges Karr faces should be thrown out. She criticized prosecutor Joann Risse for not telling her that the computer was lost even though she has known about it since Aug. 30.

The judge said she also would consider whether to unseal evidence in the case because she previously had issued the sealing orders based on statements Risse made about continuing efforts to obtain more information from the computer.

Risse said her office has printouts of 1,600 photographs from the computer, including the five suspect images, but the original computer images are missing. (AP)