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At the time of his arrest, the authorities said, Mr. Atchison, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was carrying a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings and petroleum jelly.

Based on that alone, he was some kind of freak...

Mr. Atchison was an assistant United States attorney in Pensacola and a volunteer coach for girls’ softball and basketball teams in Gulf Breeze. His wife and three children were said to be as stunned by the charges as other residents of their affluent town.

Isn't that always the way? 

In a statement, Mr. Thomas said: “This is a man who has done a lot of good in his life. Unfortunately, he is going to be judged by his most recent charges and what we have read in the media, and not by the goodness, hard work or by the love of his family.” 

Isn't that always the way?

Mr. Thomas said he would seek to have the charges against his client dismissed, adding that prosecutors are sometimes willing to do so when a defendant dies.

Hell no. He didn't die, he fled prosecution by killing himself. 

U.S. Prosecutor Held in a Child Sex Sting Kills Himself
By ABBY GOODNOUGH

MIAMI, Oct. 5 — A federal prosecutor charged with traveling from Florida to Michigan to have sex with a 5-year-old girl committed suicide on Friday in prison, his lawyer said.

The prosecutor, J. D. Roy Atchison, 53, was arrested on Sept. 16 leaving a plane in Detroit as part of an Internet sting operation led by the sheriff’s department in Macomb County, Mich.

The authorities said he had been chatting online for two weeks with an undercover detective who posed as a mother offering to let men have sex with her young daughter.

At the time of his arrest, the authorities said, Mr. Atchison, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was carrying a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings and petroleum jelly.

A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons said Mr. Atchison was found unresponsive on Friday morning in the special housing unit of the federal prison in Milan, Mich. He had been transferred there after trying to hang himself in the Sanilac County Jail days after his arrest.

Mr. Atchison was initially on suicide watch at the jail, but was removed after assuring his lawyer and a judge that he would not harm himself. He was returned to suicide watch at the Milan prison, said his lawyer, James C. Thomas of Detroit.