Depending on how puritanical the District Attorney and/or the Judge are, yes (how safe their office is come election time figures into it too - "Vote for me, I'

Depending on how puritanical the District Attorney and/or the Judge are, yes (how safe their office is come election time figures into it too - "Vote for me, I'm tough on crime!"). It's not rare to read about some teen that is having to register as a sex offender for doing the kind of things teens have been doing for a long time, it's just that now technology keeps the evidence around and accessible.