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by Anonymous User on Monday January 06, @08:52PM EST (#1)
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In MA there are serious issues pertaining to all of the issues mentioned in the article. In particular, issues pertaining to allegations of domestic violence have been resulting in longer and harsher sentences from district courts.
The definition of what abuse actually ‘is’ complicates matters, but the net result is that the police will almost always arrest the man when there is no clear reason to do so, and the court system will be as harsh as possible on the man, and the ‘victim advocates’ rig the system against the amn. In some cases in MA they use a 58A order, which completely denies bail, based on mere allegation of abuse. In some cases it may seem sensible, but it is up to the judge ‘discretion’ to decide to invoke this scary law in trivial domestic matters or not. What happens when a 58A is invoked, the man is basically forced to plead guilty and gets a sentence set up by a judge who has already violated his constitutional rights, or he will sit in jail for 90 days waiting for trial where his ability to get a fair trial will be completely obliterated, while his life falls apart in the process.
Most women do not, or will not use a system that was designed to be a “shield” as “sword,” but there are women who will use the ‘system’ to wreck havoc in a man’s life too, because mere allegation has become the basis upon which things are settled now. Trust me, I know…
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The same goes for rape sheild laws. They basically give a person full immunity from making statements.
Sure a prostitute can be raped, but why are we protecting the smallest community at the expence of the whole?
Secondly the sheild is not acted apon in such a way by the prosicution. It is more of a weapon and anyone making a false accusation will gladly use it.
The arguement of relevence is a sufficient arguement to stop any such attempt by the defence to make person look like a slut. But here's my arguement. If a prostitute gets on the stand and finds a way to put it in that she is not a prostitute and doesn't allow the defence to cross on that its an error of justice.
Here's the scenerio. The councilors at the sexual assault centre tell the accusor that they have to outright say they would never cheat on their boyfriends or that they are completely manogamous in their testomoney. Unfortunately for the defence they can not question that assertion even if they know very well that this woman has cheated on her boyfriend several times.
Believe me, there are loads of accusations of rape based on 'love triangles'. If you are having an affair with a married woman or even a girl who is dating do not think that she will own up to the affair when the husband catches you.
And it is exactly right Political Prisoner is the appropriate term.
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An excellent tabulation of information. However, I can't help but comment on several statements made in one newspaper article.
Senate Bill 316 would halt executions pending completion of a University of Maryland study of racial disparity of death penalty convictions ...
The state completed two previous death penalty studies, which detailed the overrepresentation of African-Americans on death row, but each failed to conclude the system was tainted with racism ...
Then, researchers can compare the race of the perpetrators and their sentences to see if the death penalty is applied unfairly to minorities ...
Nine of the 13 men on Maryland's death row are African-American. Backers of the moratorium point out nearly 75 percent of victims of death row criminals are white, but the overwhelming majority of murder victims statewide are African-American ...
A lot of concern is expressed as to whether the death penalty is racially biased. Nationwide, I believe the racial disparity is relatively small and in fact white men are slightly more likely to be executed than black men. Still, it seems like a good idea to question potential bias in such an important subject.
Considering that men are significantly more likely to receive the death penalty than women and that executed men out number executed women by a ratio of about 100 to 1, one can only wonder why there is absolutely no mention in the entire article of the clear and unambiguous gender bias. Men simply do not exist.
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Have any of you mailed this website, or even some of the specific statistics and stories to the Senators of MD?
Josh
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