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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Ind. Courts - Still more on: A Marion County public defender caught in child solicitation sting

Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 19, 2008, Jon Murray reports today in the Indianapolis Star:

A former Marion County public defender was sentenced to two years in prison today for child solicitation.

Ryan W. Snyder, 30, was caught in an Internet sex sting in February 2008. He showed up to a 7/11 store at Southport Road and McFarland Avenue for a planned meeting after a sexually tinged online chat with an investigator posing as a 15-year-old girl named “Mandy,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
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Snyder pleaded guilty to the Class C felony; his attorney, James Voyles, requested probation or another alternative to prison, noting that he had undergone extensive counseling. But Marion Superior Court Judge Mark Stoner dwelled heavily on Snyder’s yearlong position as a public defender before his arrest. * * *

The Public Defender Agency terminated Snyder’s employment after his arrest. He will have to register as a sex offender, and Voyles said attorney disciplinary action is pending with the Indiana Supreme Court.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 7, 2009 07:45 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts