Looking At Kent Hovind’s Innocence Claims
As I noted in yesterday’s post Kent Hovind’s team as represented by Ernie Land will be going with a “sovereign citizen” type of defense. Ernie believes that a few people have actually succeeded with those types of defenses, but their records are sealed. That type of scenario puts my bs detector into high gear, but I don’t doubt Ernie’s sincerity.
Looking At Kent Hovind’s Innocence Claims
I fear it may not. In his interviews, Kent has not foreclosed what I, as a layman, see as his best defense. That would be to plead that he has gotten some really bad advice from Glenn Stoll and now realizes that he was mistaken. I used to think that Kent could never admit he was wrong about anything, but in his interviews he indicates that he was wrong about the pre-Tribulation rapture (I’ll leave explaining that to my theologically inclined commenters). I would try to pull in someone like Robert Howze, The Pastors CPA, who would be able to relate many instances of churches and ministries that have been misled by charlatans. I’ve reached out to some white collar defense experts, but have not found any interested in commenting so I’ll have to leave it at that.
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