{"id":63583,"date":"2018-12-12T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-man-acquitted-of-privacy-invasion-charges\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:22:13","slug":"ignacio-man-acquitted-of-privacy-invasion-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-man-acquitted-of-privacy-invasion-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignacio man acquitted of privacy invasion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f50df4c9-0083-4def-a9c3-8534e1cfd084&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1137\" height=\"617\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Jaime Flores-Carbajal, a man accused of taking video up the skirt of a woman at Walmart, has been found not guilty by a six-person jury.<\/p>\n<p>Flores-Carbajal lost his job as a janitor with the Ignacio School District in the fallout of the allegations, said Durango defense lawyer Brian Schowalter with Whitney &amp; Schowalter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter having his life turned upside because of wrongful accusations that were sexual in nature,\u201d Schowalter said in an email, \u201cpeople need to know he was vindicated by a jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ignacio man was accused of filming up the skirt of a woman while standing next to her in the greeting card section at Walmart with a cellphone in his hand, positioning it below the level of the woman\u2019s skirt, according to an arrest affidavit. The woman could see the phone was recording in video mode, she told police.<\/p>\n<p>Flores-Carbajal was charged with attempted invasion of privacy for sexual gratification, a misdemeanor punishable by six to 24 months in jail and\/or a fine of $500 to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Christian Champagne said prosecutors pursued the case as a matter of public safety: If someone alleges his or her privacy is compromised for sexual gratification, it is the duty of the District Attorney\u2019s Office to prosecute the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not acceptable behavior, if it\u2019s true,\u201d Champagne said.<\/p>\n<p>But only one person, the alleged victim, testified in support of the allegations, Schowalter said in an interview, and there was no corroborating evidence to show that Flores-Carbajal committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a defense attorney, it\u2019s really concerning when people\u2019s liberty and freedom and nasty allegations like this are put out there based solely on one person\u2019s word,\u201d he said. \u201cI think if this had happened, there would have been some corroboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">bhauff@ durangoherald.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flores-Carbajal was accused of filming up the skirt of a woman at Walmart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-63583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63583"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=63583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}