From: Joe Hunt 

Well, perhaps Michigan should emulate Great Britain, where "life in
prison" for murder is 10 years.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2533610,00.html

"Lord Falconer intervened after Derbyshire Constabulary decided not to
release pictures of Jason Croft and Michael Nixon, both 28, who absconded
from Sudbury open prison in November. Croft, also known as Jason Fox, from
Salford, and Nixon, of Blackley, Manchester, were near the end of life
sentences for murder and had been given day release and allowed home
visits."

Should help free up some of that prison space.


On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:25:16 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>Michigan is getting a bit stupid also. It seems an unintended consequence of
>laws on adultery could lead to life in prison for adulterers. I don't think
>they could afford all the prison space if they uphold that law :-)
>
>
>http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333
>
>In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's
>second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can
>be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable
>by up to life in prison.
>
>"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.
>
>"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in
sexual penetration in
>an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious
>sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code.
>
>No one expects prosecutors to declare open season on cheating spouses. The
>ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike Cox, whose office
>triggered it by successfully appealing a lower court's decision to drop CSC
>charges against a Charlevoix defendant. In November 2005, Cox confessed to
>an adulterous relationship.
>
>Murphy's opinion received little notice when it was handed down. But it has
>since elicited reactions ranging from disbelief to mischievous giggling in
>Michigan's gossipy legal community.
>
>The ruling grows out of a case in which a Charlevoix man accused of trading
>Oxycontin pills for the sexual favors of a cocktail waitress was charged
>under an obscure provision of Michigan's criminal law. The provision decrees
>that a person is guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct whenever
>"sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of
>any other felony."
>
>
>
>""Mark"  wrote in message
news:45abfe73$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Jersey is lost. My only solace is my county and the county next door vote
>> right on the big stuff, but it's not enough to save us with 20 or so
>> counties! 
>>
>> Gov. Corzine wants to do AhnuldCare(tm) here too; I really don't think I'm
>> going to hold out much longer.
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
in message
>> news:45abeb80$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> The key words are that it was "unanimously passed by
state lawmakers. How
>>> does this relate to controling property taxes?
>>>
>>> http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070112-115026-7662r.htm
>>>
>>> TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- For World War II veteran Sam Stia, a legislative
>>> proposal that would cease requiring New Jersey schools to teach about
>>> Veterans Day and Memorial Day can be summed up in two words.
>>>
>>>    "That's wrong," Mr. Stia, 83, said from his
Hamilton home, where he
>>> flies an American flag at half-staff to honor fallen soldiers.
"We're
>>> just giving our flag away and our patriotism away."
>>>
>>>    Mr. Stia and other veterans are steamed about the proposal, which
>>> state lawmakers unanimously passed last month. It now awaits action by
>>> the governor. It was included as part of a larger measure designed to
>>> help control property taxes, mostly by abolishing some laws on school
>>> purchasing and public hearings.
>>>
>>>    Other holidays about which schools no longer would be required to
>>> teach include Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Arbor Day and Commodore Barry
>>> Day, which commemorates Revolutionary War hero John Barry.
>>>
>>>    New Jersey schools must observe the holidays under a 1967
law designed
>>> to promote "the development of a higher spirit of
patriotism." Florida,
>>> Nebraska and Washington are among states with similar laws.
>>>
>>>    New Jersey American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars groups have
>>> asked Gov. Jon Corzine to veto the bill so schools still have to teach
>>> about Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
>>>
>>>    "It's not right. They're not going to know the
sacrifices that were
>>> made so they can enjoy the protections that they have,"
said Hank Adams,
>>> New Jersey VFW adjutant and an Army and Coast Guard veteran.
>>>
>>
>>
>

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