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Juror: Sex offender law unfair

By "eAdvocate"

10-10-2010 Florida: She questions Jimmy Ryce Act, asks 'You can lock somebody up, throw away the key?' She was Juror Number 6, a woman with some mighty definite ideas about right and wrong. She's a conservative Republican, a law-and-order woman who doesn't want criminals coddled. And she's appalled that the state can lock people up for what they might do. "Do you remember the movie where you get arrested for future crimes?" Kathy Martin asked. "I didn't realize in America you could be given an indefinite sentence. "They hide you in a hospital, but that's the only difference." Similarities between the recent civil commitment trial of Robert Richard Sanzone in St. Augustine and the 2002 movie "Minority Report" became unmistakable as the three-day trial progressed, said Martin...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).