To: Torie
Given the alacrity with which the Kansas Supremes moved, its my suspicion that they really despised the inflexible legal result in that case, and grabbed an opportunity to correct the wrong of sending a retarded teenager to prison for 17 years for sex with another retarded teenager, when probation would have been granted had it been a hetero set of teens.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
I am sure that they did despise the Draconion sentence, and that might be why they didn't go the harmless error route, and wanted to give Kansas another shot in cleaning the matter up. But it does not necessarily follow, that if Kansas does not, that SCOTUS will then go down the road I outlined above. I tend to doubt that it will.
272 posted on
06/29/2003 11:13:44 AM PDT by
Torie
To: Chancellor Palpatine
What have the Kansas Supremes done? I'm unaware of anything. Wasn't the Limon case sent back to the Kansas Court of Appeals (not the Supreme Court)?
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