[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I understand the point of the article - too many laws on the books and villians will always ignore the laws. But still, if Caylee’s law was in effect at the time of her disappearance (I understand, timewise, that that would have been impossible), Casey would have been prosecuted and possibly convicted of violating that law. And wouldn’t that be a good thing?

If we had a law against brunettes she could have been prosecuted for that...

If we had a law against people named Casey she could have been prosecuted for that too...

If we had a law...

What's the matter with Freepers these days, I thought you all were conservatives, not liberals?!?!

Liberals are the ones always howling about more laws...

[Mach9]

Yes, indeedy. While we’re working on tort reform, we can subsidize the disaffected law firms with Caylee’s-Law cases. Only the just are likely to take the law seriously, and the just are the least likely to need it. It’s a burden for prosecutors and courts and a boon for defense lawyers, one more tax burden for all of us. All because a JURY apparently reached the wrong conclusion. It makes me wonder why we haven’t come up with a speeding-after-a-felony-murder offense (named the Nicole-Ron Law).

[FredZarguna]

Your examples are almost as silly as the author of this blog. The fact of being named Casey or the state of being a brunette does not place a child in proximate danger. The act of not reporting her disappearance does.

Posters claiming that this law is unnecessary are apparently immune to the fact that in the past no one believed such a law was necessary, because no one ever believed that an idiot jury would find that failure to report a toddler missing for a month is evidence of felony neglect, per se.

It is.

Since a whole new generation of FReepers, defending the morons on this jury, apparently believe that jurists are permitted to be nothing but automatons, we must now spell out the meaning of each and every law in excruciating detail. [And apparently also instruct supposed "conservatives" on the meaning of beyond a reasonable doubt.]