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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Broward County jail inmate was convicted of indecent exposure after a guard complained that he had masturbated in his cell.

A jury took 45 minutes to convict Terry Lee Alexander, 20, of the misdemeanor on Wednesday. Judge Fred Berman sentenced him to 60 days in the county jail. He had faced up to a year.

In November, Deputy Coryus Veal, who was monitoring Alexander's cell from a centrally located control room, saw him masturbating while he was sitting on his bunk, alone in his cell.

Veal testified that she brought the charge against him the third time he masturbated in view of her.

Alexander had been waiting in jail to resolve an armed robbery case. Twelve days after the incident, Alexander pleaded guilty to the armed robbery and got a 10-year prison sentence.

The sheriff's office encourages deputies to file criminal charges to discourage masturbating in the county's jails, said Elliot Cohen, an agency spokesman. He said privacy is one of the rights inmate give up in jail.

"That's why there are no doors on the bathrooms. That's why detention deputies monitor what you do and when you do it," Cohen said. "That's what jail is."

Veal has brought similar charges against seven other inmates in six months.

Kathleen McHugh, Alexander's attorney, said her client did nothing wrong. She said he was alone in his cell, which was not open to the public.

"I think the government's gone awry," McHugh said. "Has it been a slow year in crime that they've got to go prosecute masturbation in the Broward County Jail?"

During jury selection, McHugh looked at 17 prospective jurors and asked how many among them had never masturbated. No hands were raised.

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Damn, I'd best hope I never spend a night in the Broward County Jail. Got a feeling I'd turn it into a life sentence.

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Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

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In the meantime one judge or even just a general master is probably hearing more dependency cases than he/she can handle while the other judges are busy handling all the misdemeanor jerkin' off cases.

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What ^^^ said.

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Rather than waste the court's time for such nonsense...why don't they just skip the trial and go right to sentencing?


Wack his pecker with their baton as they walk past.

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