[Vision2020] Our Wonderful Latah County Justice System

[Tom Hansen]

A THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLR fine!!?!?!?

At Christmas time?

Now, there's a couple taverns that'll just have to go without this season,
huh?

Any guesses who the judge was?

Welcome to Latah County . . .

Where RAPE and PEDOPHILIA rank supreme!

Seeya round town. Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscosw, Idaho




On Mon, December 27, 2010 9:12 am, Art Deco wrote:
> The following appeared in the Daily News Public Records section on
> Saturday:
>
> Sentencings
>
> Monday -- Hunter Marsh Hursh, 21, of Moscow was convicted of rape.  He was
> fined $305 and sentenced to five years of probation and 30 days of
> discretionary jail time, and he cannot contact the victim for five years.
>
> Missing from this report is the fact that Hursh (with an extensive
> criminal history) also received a withheld judgment for this rape.
>
>
> WTF?
>
> A $305 fine and 30 days discretionary jail time? And a withheld judgment?
> For rape?  A felony?
>
> Hursh is no stranger to the criminal justice system.  And since the crime
> of rape [04-28-2009], he has been convicted of other crimes for which he
> also received probation.  Hursh will soon, if not now, be out in our
> community, free to pursue his habitual ways.  Who will be his next
> victims?  Is this what we want to happen in our community?  Do we not care
> enough about each other to take some time and effort to prevent this kind
> of public endangering infamy by the prosecutor and court?
>
>
> Read Hursh's criminal history and the bumblings of the prosecutor and
> judges here (Have a barf bag at the ready!):
> https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseHistory.do?roaDetail=yes&schema=LATAH&county=Latah&partySeq=87230&displayName=Hursh%2C+Hunter+Martin
>
> Also you can do a search in the online Daily News [sorted by date] for
> more information.
>
>
> What's going on in Latah County?
>
> Besides inept, public disinterested prosecution and lazy, soft-headed
> judges, where is the intensive media attention that allows this kind of
> outrage to escape public attention?
>
> Is the Daily News deliberately shielding the horrible ineptitude of the
> prosecutor's office and the lack of judgment of certain judges, or is the
> Daily News also practitioners of lassitude and ineptitude?  How can the
> public respond to this continued kind of ineptness and poor judgment in
> the criminal justice system if the media does not cover and comment upon
> it?  Without competent reporting and comment are we doomed to continue to
> experience these kinds of outrages ad nauseam?
>
> And without intensive media coverage where is the general deterrence that
> is allegedly part of the goals of criminal sentencing?  How do law
> enforcement personnel feel when they spend much time and effort working up
> a case only to find it handled in such a horrendously nonchalant manner by
> the prosecutor and the courts?  Over the long term wouldn't this kind of
> event be likely to demotivate law enforcement?
>
> We need competent, public interest motivated reporting, and we need to
> somehow motivate the prosecutor and court to serve the public interest or
> change the inept and lazy out, by recall if necessary.
>
> And if the local media are not willing to act responsibly, perhaps it is
> time to start talking to their advertising clients who bear some
> responsibility for supporting this fifth-rate media arrogance and careless
> ineptitude about serious crimes taking place and adversely effecting
> member of our community.
>
>
> Wayne A. Fox
> 1009 Karen Lane
> PO Box 9421
> Moscow, ID  83843
>
> waf at moscow.com
> 208 882-7975
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