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John B. " Jack" Thompson is a American lawyer often quoted in the press for its points of view on the effects of the Obscénité and the Violence in the popular media.

Native of Ohio, it receives in 1976 a diploma in right of the School of right of the Université Vanderbilt and practical since as a lawyer specialized in the cases of medical errors in Florida since 1977.

Defeat against Janet reno

In 1988, Thompson was the unhappy competitor of the Republican party vis-a-vis Janet reno for the post of public prosecutor of the county of Miami-Dade, in Florida. Following this defeat, in articles for NewsMax.com, he wrote a series of strange allegations concerning Janet reno, seen with incredulity by the press, proclaiming that its old adversary was homosexual ashamed suffering from various mental disorders, side effects of drugs taken to treat a Parkinson's disease, and that it underwent blackmails of the Mafia.

Legal affairs

Ileane Flora

Jack Thompson for the first time was made available of the public in 1986 when it represented Ileana Flores in its divorce of with Frank Fuster. Fuster had been recognized guilty the previous year of multiple sexual abuses on children in the business discussed of.

Businesses concerning the First Amendment

According to the business Flora, Thompson was implied in many businesses concerning the First American Amendment, particularly concerning the possible psychological effects of the exposures to the media sexually violent one. The Supreme court of Florida ordered that it undergoes psychiatric tests during this program, that it passed successfully. Later, he protested that did of him one of rare lawyers healthy of spirit working in the state. Specific events or the declarations which led the court to require these tests, and with which aims, are unknown.

The business 2 Live Crew

Thompson conducted the campaign against the album of 1989 of the 2 Live Crew named As Nasty As They Wanna Be . In the federal lawsuit of 1990 which establishes that the album was obscene, it presented documents in so much qu' amicus curiae . It will take again this expert role d' third in many lawsuits related to the video games (see below). The decision of the court led to the arrest of many members of the group and a salesman of discs, although the judgment was quickly cancelled.

Freedom Alliance

In 1992, Thompson represented the Freedom Alliance of Oliver North with the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Time Warner, concerning the song of Ice T COP Killer . It advanced the arguments that, if the song excited somebody listening to it and led to the murder of police officers, the widows would have the possibility of prosecuting Time Warner about the contents of the recording. Time Warner thus decided to lay off the singer.

Legal affairs related to the Video game

In 1999, John Thompson led a complaint of 130 million dollars concerning the reliability of federal products against many companies of leisures in the name of the parents of the victims of the shootings of the Paducah school of 1997. These companies included/understood the producers and distributers of the film The Basketball Diaries , of the admnistrateurs of Web sites to sexual character and several producers of Video games. The sixth circuit of Court of Appeal of the United States classified the business in 2002.

In spite of the failure of the Paducah procedure, Thompson continued to prosecute the realizers of video games violent one. For example, it tried to bind the massacre of the school of Columbine as well as the Sniper of Washington to the sets of shootings to the first nobody, in the last case giving a report on various arguments relating to the God mode, as well as the function zoom of the rifle of sniper and the gun of Halo. It frequently attacked Rockstar, connecting the play Manhunt and the series of the Grand Theft Auto to various types of murder, particularly those implying of the vehicles or the weapons other than of the firearms.

Some consider it being the Fredric Wertham world of the video game. Whereas Thompson does not have knowledge in psychology of Wertham, its actions did not lead to a movement of censure. Moreover, it either did not succeed in connecting the media in question to crimes violent one with the eyes of the US government.

More recently, it tried to convince lawyers defending Dustin Lynch, shown murder of Jolynn Mishne, that the video games were responsible for the actions of the accused. The lawyers declined the offer, and Thompson proposed thereafter to defend Lynch free.

While being harnessed to promote its strategy of defense aiming at charging to the video games the responsibility for the crimes reproached the defendant, Thompson will overpower the video games within the framework of sordid businesses having struck America. In the business of the Sniper of Washington, it was the first nobody to suggest with the press which the video games could have been at the origin of competences of the sniper, a conjecture that the discovery of a Playstation in the vehicle used like “ cushy job mobile ” by the two responsible men seemed to corroborate. NBC announced that Malvo had lengthily been involved on the play Xbox Halo . Following this discovery, Thompson thinks that “ Microsoft must be judged and pay financial damage of the snipers of Beltway. ” It is important to notice, however, that John Allen Muhammad was a former soldier perfectly trained to draw, as indicated by the police force, and that competences of gunner of Lee Boyd Malvo can have been the result of a teaching of Muhammad. Still aujourd' door, Thompson is attacked has Microsoft, more precisely has Bill Gates by denouncing Halo 3 as a play “hyperviolent”. It ensures “that it will make so that no copy of Halation 3 is between the hands of less than 17 years in September”, judging the dramatic situation. He adds that beta is already a proof of this violence and that it cannot be tolerated.

Moreover, Thompson makes take the responsibility for the case of sniper of Ohio to the video games since the discovery of the possession by Playstation 2 and play The Getaway. Thompson also connected the play Grand Theft Auto III to the crimes violent one, although it did not succeed in proving it in the case of Manhunt.

Jack Thompson renewed its charge towards Bill Gates at the time of the shooting of Virginia Tech. Being based on an erroneous article of Washington Post, the lawyer put forward in an open letter that the play Counter-Strike had learned with the gunner " how tuer" , and that Microsoft was to withdraw this play immediately. However Microsoft is not the editor of Counter-Strike , it forever distributed and does not have any bond with this play. Washington Post corrected its article shortly after. In addition, the official investigation establishes that the gunner, Cho Seung Hui, were not follower of the video plays as the newspaper claimed it. But Jack Thompson did not withdraw its letter for as much.

At the end of 2007, Thompson renews its attacks against Rockstar and Take 2. It indeed has just learned the existence from a scene in next the Grand Theft Auto 4 where the hero should be caught some with a lawyer. He thus asks the editors to immediately withdraw this scene for his own security. (Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=28780)

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