On a tangentially related note, I called my Congressional rep last week, and suggested a new federal law, namely, that if you frame someone, falsely testify, or knowingly falsely prosecute someone, and you are convicted, your punishment would then be the same as the crime you framed, falsely testified, or falsely prosecuted the other person for. If enacted, the Nifongs of the future would jail time equivalent to multiple (at least three) counts of felony rape.
“On a tangentially related note, I called my Congressional rep last week, and suggested a new federal law, namely, that if you frame someone, falsely testify, or knowingly falsely prosecute someone, and you are convicted, your punishment would then be the same as the crime you framed, falsely testified, or falsely prosecuted the other person for. If enacted, the Nifongs of the future would jail time equivalent to multiple (at least three) counts of felony rape.”
This should be put on the general election ballot.
A lot of us would hit YES...............
I would like to see us adopt the British system where, if you bring a civil suit against a person and subsequently lose, you are liable to pay their legal expenses. I would like to add: If the “loser” can’t afford to pay, then the attorney who took on the case to represent them would have to pay. I wonder what that would do to the number of “slip-and-fall” cases in the US?