From
“Crime is the Answer”, to be published by the American Bar Association in 2018:
Dylan Jackson had a normal,
midwestern childhood. Raised in a devout Catholic family, Dylan spent his youth
going to Boy Scout meetings, making good grades in school, and he never got
into any trouble at all. After he graduated high school, Dylan enlisted in the
United States Armed Forces where he excelled due to his natural athleticism,
drive and ambition.
The difficulty one faces in order
to become a member of elite, military special forces is legendary.
Nevertheless, Dylan Jackson successfully became a member of the special forces
and rapidly rose through the ranks. He served in several leadership positions
over many years of combat after the 9/11 attacks.
During the war in Iraq, Dylan and
his troops were among the first to hit the ground. For the following nine
years, Dylan would be rotated between Iraq and Afghanistan during multiple
deployments to enemy-held territory.
All of these deployments to enemy
territory involved both giving and receiving hostile fire. Rocket propelled
grenades, sniper rifles, implemented explosive devices, assault weapons, hand
grenades, and other modern weapons of war were a regular part of Dylan's daily
existence. People were killed by Dylan, Dylan was almost killed, and Dylan's
comrades in arms were also killed. His closest brush with death came as he was
climbing the exterior wall of the building. During the fire fight, a rocket
propelled grenade blew him off of a multi story building. On another occasion,
Dylan was almost killed by a bullet ricocheting off of rocks he crouched behind
for cover. One of the troops under his command was hit and severely injured
instead.
Most of the combat Dylan saw he was
unable to talk about except in the broadest of terms due to the sensitivity of
most of his special forces operations. Finally, the day came when Dylan could
no longer jump out of aircraft, land in hostile territory under the cover of
darkness yet still under fire, and take out enemy combatants in the darkness of
the night. Thus it came to pass that Dylan received an honorable medical
discharge.
As he was being processed out of
the United States Armed Forces, Dylan was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in
Northwest Florida. After the horrors of war, he soon faced the horror of the
criminal justice system as reflected in this graphic probable cause statement
from the arrest report’s offense report:
“It had been established in the
chat that Detective M. Tars’s undercover was 14 years old because when he
engaged her she asked him for his “A/S/L” (Age/Sex/Location). Dylan
Jackson stated he was “26 in Florida” and she stated she was “14, f, fl” during
the chat on TeenSpot.com. When the conversation continued on Yahoo
Messenger, Dylan Jackson engaged the obscene conversations by making the following
statements in the conversation:
