Joe Lanning wasn’t touching the other man very long as the two stood on a secluded forest trail in North Carolina. The hand-to-body contact lasted just until the other man could utter the words: “Police officer, you’re under arrest.”
Lanning was fully clothed. So was the other man, who’d just agreed to have sex. This was an undercover sting. Convicted at a bench trial on the charge of violating the federal disorderly conduct regulation, Lanning, a widower with no prior criminal history, was sentenced last year to 15 days in jail.
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