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<DIV><FONT size=2>An important consequence of this ridiculously
lame/inappropriate sentence is that it will discourage many rape victims from
reporting their victimization. Why report a rape and suffer all the
unpleasantness and humiliation that goes with the criminal justice process if
the rapist only receives a $305 fine and probation, and hence is free to
continue his ways? And set an example of what few and little
consequences follow raping someone -- $305, a withheld judgment, and freedom,
aside from the few minor inconveniences of probation?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The same can be said for such casual repercussions for
serial pedophilia as in the New Saint Andrews student Steven Sitler case --
a few months soft-time, not arrested for six months after a reported crime,
and for crimes against several victims in at least three
states. Does this encourage parents/relatives/others to report child
sexual abuse and allow the consequences to the victims if the abusers are going
to sponsored and protected by a professional alleged, grossly
hypocritical Christian [Douglas Wilson] and a kowtowing PA and
sheriff? And contrary to the terms of probation, be out on the streets
without a chaperon at least once?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Where is the reporting in the local media that should
spark enough moral outrage in the community so that change is
demanded?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> ; <A
title=alford@dnews.com href="mailto:alford@dnews.com">Nathan Alford Daily
News</A> ; <A title=lrozen@dnews.com
href="mailto:lrozen@dnews.com">lrozen@dnews.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 27, 2010 9:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Our Wonderful
Latah County Justice System</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>A THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLR fine!!?!?!?<BR><BR>At Christmas
time?<BR><BR>Now, there's a couple taverns that'll just have to go without
this season,<BR>huh?<BR><BR>Any guesses who the judge was?<BR><BR>Welcome to
Latah County . . .<BR><BR>Where RAPE and PEDOPHILIA rank supreme!<BR><BR>Seeya
round town. Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscosw, Idaho<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On
Mon, December 27, 2010 9:12 am, Art Deco wrote:<BR>> The following appeared
in the Daily News Public Records section on<BR>> Saturday:<BR>><BR>>
Sentencings<BR>><BR>> Monday -- Hunter Marsh Hursh, 21, of Moscow was
convicted of rape. He was<BR>> fined $305 and sentenced to five years
of probation and 30 days of<BR>> discretionary jail time, and he cannot
contact the victim for five years.<BR>><BR>> Missing from this report is
the fact that Hursh (with an extensive<BR>> criminal history) also received
a withheld judgment for this rape.<BR>><BR>><BR>>
WTF?<BR>><BR>> A $305 fine and 30 days discretionary jail time? And a
withheld judgment?<BR>> For rape? A felony?<BR>><BR>> Hursh is
no stranger to the criminal justice system. And since the crime<BR>>
of rape [04-28-2009], he has been convicted of other crimes for which
he<BR>> also received probation. Hursh will soon, if not now, be out
in our<BR>> community, free to pursue his habitual ways. Who will be
his next<BR>> victims? Is this what we want to happen in our
community? Do we not care<BR>> enough about each other to take some
time and effort to prevent this kind<BR>> of public endangering infamy by
the prosecutor and court?<BR>><BR>><BR>> Read Hursh's criminal
history and the bumblings of the prosecutor and<BR>> judges here (Have a
barf bag at the ready!):<BR>> <A
href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseHistory.do?roaDetail=yes&schema=LATAH&county=Latah&partySeq=87230&displayName=Hursh%2C+Hunter+Martin">https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseHistory.do?roaDetail=yes&schema=LATAH&county=Latah&partySeq=87230&displayName=Hursh%2C+Hunter+Martin</A><BR>><BR>>
Also you can do a search in the online Daily News [sorted by date] for<BR>>
more information.<BR>><BR>><BR>> What's going on in Latah
County?<BR>><BR>> Besides inept, public disinterested prosecution and
lazy, soft-headed<BR>> judges, where is the intensive media attention that
allows this kind of<BR>> outrage to escape public
attention?<BR>><BR>> Is the Daily News deliberately shielding the
horrible ineptitude of the<BR>> prosecutor's office and the lack of
judgment of certain judges, or is the<BR>> Daily News also practitioners of
lassitude and ineptitude? How can the<BR>> public respond to this
continued kind of ineptness and poor judgment in<BR>> the criminal justice
system if the media does not cover and comment upon<BR>> it? Without
competent reporting and comment are we doomed to continue to<BR>>
experience these kinds of outrages ad nauseam?<BR>><BR>> And without
intensive media coverage where is the general deterrence that<BR>> is
allegedly part of the goals of criminal sentencing? How do law<BR>>
enforcement personnel feel when they spend much time and effort working
up<BR>> a case only to find it handled in such a horrendously nonchalant
manner by<BR>> the prosecutor and the courts? Over the long term
wouldn't this kind of<BR>> event be likely to demotivate law
enforcement?<BR>><BR>> We need competent, public interest motivated
reporting, and we need to<BR>> somehow motivate the prosecutor and court to
serve the public interest or<BR>> change the inept and lazy out, by recall
if necessary.<BR>><BR>> And if the local media are not willing to act
responsibly, perhaps it is<BR>> time to start talking to their advertising
clients who bear some<BR>> responsibility for supporting this fifth-rate
media arrogance and careless<BR>> ineptitude about serious crimes taking
place and adversely effecting<BR>> member of our
community.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Wayne A. Fox<BR>> 1009 Karen
Lane<BR>> PO Box 9421<BR>> Moscow, ID 83843<BR>><BR>> <A
href="mailto:waf@moscow.com">waf@moscow.com</A><BR>> 208 882-7975<BR>>
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