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Sidney Smeets | |
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 Smeets in 2021 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 31 March 2021 – 16 April 2021 | |
| Succeeded by | Marijke van Beukering |
| Personal details | |
| Born | S.F.J. Smeets 18 June 1975 Heerlen, Netherlands |
| Political party | Democrats 66 |
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Sidney F.J. Smeets (born 18 June 1975) is a Dutch lawyer and politician.
Smeets started working for VVD politician Erica Terpstra in 1998, when she was a member of the House of Representatives. He left in 2001 to work for a law firm.[1] He represented suspects in some high-profile child pornography cases. In 2012, he defended a couple that had offered their eight-year-old daughter for sex on the Internet; the wife was acquitted after her procedural rights had been violated.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Boers, Erwin (28 April 2001). "Gehoord en gezien" [Heard and seen]. Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch).
- ^ "Moeder duikt onder" [Mother goes into hiding]. AD/De Dordtenaar (in Dutch). 14 April 2012. p. 1.
