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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #1 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 8:34am » |
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While violent sexual preditors get a slap on the wrist and maybe a few years before being released to terrorize more victims.
The law/justice sure has been given a bizarre twist by our legislators and activist judges.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #2 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 11:41am » |
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So I guess we have to hope that rapists and pedophiles are married so they can get a steeper sentence.
It really should be the rapists and pedophiles that get life not a cheating husband or wife.
There really are sum silly laws on the books our there.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #3 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 12:51pm » |
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I dunno. Speaking from the female point of view, if my husband was cheating on me, I think a nice long jail sentence would be appropriate  . (or maybe perform a little Joey Buttofuco (sp) on him 
On the other hand, if he's in jail, he's not earning any money, which, because the bastid was cheating on me, would all be mine!
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #4 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 1:26pm » |
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Strange. But this isn't about activist judges. It is about anti-activist judges that strictly enforce a law as it was written - no room for discretion, interpretation, or so-called common sense.
Quote:"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
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In many other states, judges may reject a literal interpretation of the law if they believe it would lead to an absurd result. But Michigan's Supreme Court majority has held that it is for the Legislature, not the courts, to decide when the absurdity threshold has been breached.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #5 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 1:54pm » |
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Much to do about nothing. It hasn't been enforced since 1971 and won't be enforced now. A political tittering of the courts.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #6 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 2:18pm » |
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on Jan 19th, 2007, 12:51pm, Sandy_C wrote:I dunno. .. if my husband was cheating on me, I think performing a little Joey Buttofuco (sp) on him would be appropriate
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I modified the quote a little.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #7 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 2:26pm » |
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I saw this on the news. I think the prosecutors applied this to a case he's on just to give the charges more bite.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #8 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 5:26pm » |
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Quote:| In an attempt to increase his jail time, prosecutors used an obscure provision of the state's criminal law... |
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An obscure law as an enforceable reason for more jail time.
But was it a crime? Two different cases, each had a search and each reaching for something.
An "obscure" statute was the only legal reason found to start a criminal file on bin Laden in 1996.
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It was difficult to believe, in those cloudless days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that America had any real enemies still standing.
Then, in August 1996, bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan... He presumed to speak on behalf of all Muslims, and even directed some of his lengthy fatwa to U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry personally. "I say to you, William, that These youths love death as you love life... These youths will not ask you for explanations. They will sing out that there is nothing between us that needs to be explained, there is only killing and neck-smiting."
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Coleman showed the text of bin Laden's fatwa to prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. It was droll, it was weird, but was it a crime? The lawyers puzzled over the language and found a rarely invoked seditious conspiracy statute from the Civil War era that forbids instigating violence and attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. It seemed a stretch to think that it might be applied to a stateless Arab living in a cave in Tora Bora, but on the basis of such meager precedent, he opened a criminal file on the figure who would become the most wanted man in the FBI's history. He was working entirely alone.*
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #9 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 6:10pm » |
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Worked for me!
My wife had an afair
now she my X wife
NOW I HAVE A LIFE!
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #11 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 6:39pm » |
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on Jan 19th, 2007, 1:54pm, Jimi wrote:| Much to do about nothing. It hasn't been enforced since 1971 and won't be enforced now. A political tittering of the courts. |
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #12 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 8:36pm » |
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Nothing like putting people away for life to learn all about other forms of sex.
I love the "activist judges" argument. It's fine if it's your activists which is exactly what the Pat Robertsons of the world howl about. It's they who want nothing but activist puritans on courts. The level of lying from this buch is stunning.
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Re: An affair can get you life.
« Reply #13 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 12:19pm » |
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on Jan 19th, 2007, 1:26pm, floridian wrote:Strange. But this isn't about activist judges. It is about anti-activist judges that strictly enforce a law as it was written - no room for discretion, interpretation, or so-called common sense.
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I understand your point, however, I saw this ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court to be an attempt to stop lower courts from interpreting statues based on perceived "legislative intent" instead of common/written law. It also appears that ‘activist judges” of the lower courts chose this particular statute to generate public pressure to reverse a good decision by the high court. Michigan residents should be encouraged by the fact that their Supreme Court took this unusual stand, back it, and pressure their legislature to correct their mistakes.
Here in Pennsylvania lower courts through the State Supreme court enjoy wide discretion in interpreting “legislative intent”. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court won’t take the same stand as Michigan’s. No matter how clear a Pennsylvania statute is written, legal challenges to governmental decisions/actions are virtually impossible because judges literally insert/eliminate words and even entire paragraphs based on their interpretation of the “legislative intent”. Not surprisingly Pennsylvania is widely recognized as one of the most corrupt states in the nation due to the political alliance this has created between the legislative and judicial branches.
Giving judges freedom to interpret “legislative intent” eliminates the possibility of equal justice. It gives each judge individual power to alter/make/apply law inequitably by rendering decisions based on personal and/or political views.
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