It has come to light that Mr. Roisman, convicted felon in the state of California is formally a Navy sailor and was kicked out after being accused of raping a girl by Chris Hansen.
""To Catch a Predator" may be TV ratings gold, but it was poison in one courtroom.
A California judge tossed out a case against a former Navy man caught in a sting orchestrated by the NBC program in part because the show's producers engage in entrapment.
Joseph Roisman, 26, was arrested in 2006 after trying to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl he'd found on the Internet but was actually a producer for the show. "
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