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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. 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.