[Jack Hammer]

The woman should have been busted; obviously she is a Peeping Tomasina.

The fact that she’s the wife of a cop means, of course, that she gets to do as she pleases without fear of punishment in the Banana Republic which is the New America.

The Rule of Law now takes a back seat to whom you know and what your position is in society.

This whole affair is a travesty of justice which should not be allowed to stand. Indeed, the woman should be fined and jailed.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a program on C-SPAN a little earlier which was pretty scary--hosted by the Cato Institute and featuring Tim Lynch and Harvey Silverglate (author of Three Felonies a Day). Silverglate's thesis is that because of vaguely-written laws the average person will unknowingly commit three acts in the course of a day which could be construed as felonies (and old safeguards like the concept of mens rea have been largely eroded away), so if a prosecutor wants to go after you, you're sunk.

Lynch cited a case where a man was replacing the carpet in his home when he found a bullet under the carpet, put it aside and forgot about it. A while later his ex-girlfriend falsely accused him of stealing her stereo. When the cop showed up he let him into his home to see that the stereo wasn't there. The cop spotted the bullet, and because the man had a prior felony, he got a minimum 15-year prison term for possession of "ammunition" because of that one bullet.