<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some things you just can't make up . . .</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Montana State Representative Jerry O'Neill (R-Columbia Falls) introduced a bill to the Montana state legislature providing for the imposition of corporal punishment, in lieu of incarceration, upon those convicted of a crime (including felonies).</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy of the Montana state legislature at:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/lchtml/LC1452.htm" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/lchtml/LC1452.htm</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">NEW SECTION.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Section 1. Corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration.</span> (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person convicted of any offense by a court in this state, whether a misdemeanor or felony, may during a sentencing hearing as provided in <a href="tel:46-18-115">46-18-115</a> bargain with the court for the imposition of corporal punishment in lieu of or to reduce the term of any sentence of incarceration available to the court for imposition.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> (2) The court and the person convicted of an offense shall negotiate the exact nature of the corporal punishment to be imposed, which must be commensurate with the severity, nature, and degree of the harm caused by the offender. If the court and the offender cannot agree on the exact nature of the corporal punishment to be imposed, the court shall impose a sentence as provided in <a href="tel:46-18-201">46-18-201</a>.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> (3) The imposition of a sentence under this section must be carried out by the sheriff of the county in which the crime occurred if the sentence for corporal punishment reduced or eliminated the term of incarceration in the county jail or by the department of corrections if the sentence reduced or eliminated the term of incarceration in the state prison. Any imposition of sentence pursuant to this section must be carried out within a reasonable time.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> (4) For purposes of this section, "corporal punishment" means the infliction of physical pain on a defendant to carry out the sentence negotiated between the judge and the defendant.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill (LC 1452)</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><a href="http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/billpdf/LC1452.pdf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/billpdf/LC1452.pdf</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-----------------------</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Montana State Representative Jerry O'Neill</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><a href="http://www.leg.mt.gov/css/Sessions/63rd/leg_info.asp?HouseID=0&SessionID=107&LAWSID=12555" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.leg.mt.gov/css/Sessions/63rd/leg_info.asp?HouseID=0&SessionID=107&LAWSID=12555</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------------<br><br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still </span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill <br>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>