Mr Knight (right) attended the study in Pennsylvania on Tuesday with his family the trial of a former UN weapons inspector, who faced charges of illegal sexual contact with a minor is opened in Pennsylvania has.Prosecutors, on Tuesday said that a sexually graphic online chat in 2009 with an undercover police officer as a 15-year old girl had Scott Ritter, an outspoken critic of the war in the Iraq.
Mr Knight's lawyer said that his client does not think he spoke with a minor.
If convicted, the 49-year old could face up to seven years in prison.
Police detective Ryan Venneman, testified by Barrett Township in the State of Pennsylvania, that is Mr Ritter, a former US Marine who served in the Gulf war in 1991, the conversation through a chat room of Yahoo in February 2009 initiated.
Mr Knight allegedly played a sex act on itself on a Web camera, despite the officer repeated claims that he was a 15-year-old girl named Emily.
Graphic video chatMr Venneman said judges Mr Ritter had delivered him his phone number and touched at the talk about a video chat.
Prosecutors played a graphical 20-minute video of the conversation for the jury.
But Mr Ritter Attorney, Gary Kohlmann, said that his client believed that he held a conversation with an adult.
"There is no trace of prove that Mr Knight had ever an inappropriate conversation with a minor in his life," said Mr. Kohlmann.
"Knight never believed in his chat with officer Venneman once, that it something other than talk and chatting with an adult fact," he added.
The jury now must decide whether Mr Ritter believed that the person was a minor or adult at the other end of the chat.
A decade ago, Mr Knight in New York was charged with establishing a meeting with an undercover police officer as a 16-year-old girl posing.
These charges - which Mr Ritter claimed were politically motivated - were dismissed after completing six months of probation.
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