[Vision2020] Today's Daily News HER VIEW: Don't confusementalillness with cr

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Since an Order to Show Cause was filed regarding the issue of his attendance 
at the counseling, it is inaccurate to say 'measures are not initiated.'  
His probation could have been extended if he had not completed the 
counseling, and he could have been sentenced to serve the remaining 90 days 
if he still did not get the counseling.

Or, of course, the maximum of 180 days could have been imposed and served, 
and he would have been done with no counseling.  Then people could yell 
about his just getting jail and no counseling.

Sunil



>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "'Andreas Schou'" <ophite at gmail.com>,        "'Saundra Lund'" 
><sslund at roadrunner.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Today's Daily News HER VIEW: Don't 
>confusementalillness with criminality
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:44:02 -0700
>
>Rhetorical question, Andreas:
>
>Why even bother sentencing a person to batterers' treatment if measures are
>not initiated to ensure that person undergoes batterers' treatment?  Or is
>it simply a paper shuffle, such that later when statistics are polled, 
>Latah
>County can say, "We are getting down on spousal abuse.  Of those convicted
>of domestic assault (or similar crime) last year we sentenced X (number) to
>batterers' treatment."
>
>But then, it's not like he was fishing out of season where his fishinig 
>gear
>would be confiscated, huh?
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>"Uh, how about a 1-strike law. Death doesn't seem too extreme for a Level-3
>sex offender."
>
>- Dale "Comb-Over" Courtney (August 3, 2005)
>
>