abstract:In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence") or sometimes simply in flagrante (Latin: "in blazing") is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught in the act", "caught red-handed", or "caught rapid" are English equivalents.
But this is as much a consequence of the cult of personality that the media has created around him as it is a result of the double standard applied to powerful men and less powerful women caught inflagrantedelicto.
Last May 24, the New York Times did something extraordinary: On the front page, the paper not only ran a photo of a Massachusetts woman inflagrantedelicto committing multiple federal and state felonies and civil torts, but also identified her and the scene of the crime.