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Against low-threshold sex offender branding

Posted by Kristofor on 2010-10-29 21:12:40, Friday

Jurors are balking at laws that are intended to contain violent rapists, but are being extended by prosecutors to include lesser offenders.

(from -http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/rare-juror-speaks-out-after-sexual.html)

"Juror Number 6 is a conservative, law-and-order Republican. But she was appalled when she realized that in the United States, someone can be indefinitely detained not for what he has done, but for what he might do in the future.

Kathy Martin spoke to a news reporter after she and her five colleagues refused to civilly commit a convicted sex offender. Robert Richard Sanzone, age 34, had finished the prison term imposed in 2004 for having sex with one 15-year-old girl and trying to coax a second girl into sexual intimacies."

Full story at link.

• ( http link ) Juror speaks out
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