[Vision2020] Our Wonderful Latah County Justice System

Chuck Kovis ckovis at turbonet.com
Mon Dec 27 11:51:30 PST 2010 

So, Tom, if the "guy" was 18 and the girlfriend was 17, how long should he 
be placed in prison for rape?  Just curious.  Chuck Kovis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>; "vision 2020" 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>; <alford at dnews.com>; <lrozen at dnews.com>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Our Wonderful Latah County Justice System


> The guy has a criminal history. Sunil, and he was convicted of rape for
> God's sake!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Probation for rape?????????????
>
> Thank God he wasn't caught with marijuana.  We'd have to lock him up then,
> huh?
>
> JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!!!!
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> On Mon, December 27, 2010 10:40 am, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
>>
>> 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
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