Old Weird Ward
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Sunday, June 29, 2003
- - - - - Weekend - - - - -
Temps have dropped from 95F+ down to 85F, which is a great relief. Here in the Santa Clara Valley (just South of SF Bay) you only need air conditioning for your house about three weeks out of the year. But when you need it, you really need it. We don't have it, so we suffer, sometimes.
We've been spending a lot of time at the swimming pool in our townhouse complex. What this translates to is a game called "Let's Drown Daddy", played with great vigor and many shrieks by a pair of little girls, ages 8 and 5. I'm still alive, but a little sore, here and there.
- - - - - Crime - - - - -
Here in California, we had a law passed in 1994 eliminating the statute of limitations for child molestation, and made it retroactive. The US Supreme Court has struck that law down, meaning that a bunch of slimeballs walk.
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, the slime-o's get to walk. On the other hand, a dangerous precedent has been eliminated. Eliminating the statute of limitations for a crime is OK, if it is debated vigorously (as this one was). On the other hand, making it retroactive? I'm not too sure that retroactive was a good idea. The precedent that is set could make other criminal acts that fall under the statute open crimes forever.
Also as a possibility, how about making a perfectly legal act today be a crime tomorrow? And furthermore, make that formerly legal act a crime, retroactively? And even though it was legal when committed, keep that occurrence a prosecutable crime forever?
So, however reluctantly, I think the Supreme Court was correct.
Damn, I really hate to see those guys walk.
AND.....
FORT WORTH, Texas (CNN) -- Jurors delivered two guilty verdicts Thursday against a former nurse's aide who hit a homeless man with her car and left him to die while still embedded in the windshield.
With unanimous verdicts reached in less than a hour, the jury determined Chante Jawan Mallard guilty of murder and tampering with evidence.
And...they gave her 50 years in the slammer, to boot! Good! Lose the key!
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