[Vision2020] Our Wonderful Latah County Justice System

[Sunil Ramalingam]

It seems to me that if people are going to rail and shout, they should at least make sure they report matters correctly. Hursh just came back from a retained jurisdiction, which means he was in the prison system and had to be recommended for probation based upon his performance in the prison system programming.  On the Grand Theft charge he was sentenced to two to seven years in the custody of the Idaho Department of Corrections.

(Note to the Daily News: He is now on probation, not parole. They are not interchangeable terms.)

Having had clients go to prison after convictions of rape or child molestation, I know it's ignorance to argue that those crimes go unpunished in Latah County. I understand that people have their agendas, but that does not excuse falsehoods.

Sunil

> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:45:13 -0800
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: deco at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com; alford at dnews.com; lrozen at dnews.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Our Wonderful Latah County Justice System
> 
> 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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