Posted on 09/28/2018 7:19:05 PM PDT by bitt
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has called for a “full investigation” into allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford 36 years ago, when both were teenagers.
But neither the Maryland State Police, which reports to Hogan, nor police in Montgomery County, the Washington suburb where the assault allegedly occurred, are likely to launch such a probe.
Here’s why: 1. Hogan’s spokeswoman said last week that the governor “has never used the state police to pursue investigations at his personal whim. That is a very dangerous and slippery slope.”
So while Democratic state lawmakers have asked Hogan to initiate an investigation within Maryland, he is not planning to do so. Instead, he is calling for an unspecified independent investigator, who would presumably report to federal officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And even if an accuser went to the local department, the statute of limitations appears to have long since passed for pursuing the allegations described in Thursday’s dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The most serious allegation that authorities could pursue, given the sworn testimony provided by Ford, would be attempted rape. But that was considered a misdemeanor in Maryland in 1982, and that would be the relevant legal standard.
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Then issue a damn statement already and tell them to vote on Saturday morning dammit
Also, he was a minor at the time. So even if anything legally had been pursued at the time, any such juvenile record would.have been sealed.
What a circus. I am so frustrated at all of this.
Montgomery County law enforcement officials have already issued a written statement on this same subject. The statute of limitations information that you provided is correct.
No police department is going to initiate any investigation without a complaint.
The same reason Maryland isn’t investigating the crimes Edgar Alan Poe tabulated in his books.
Now the left is really going for the jackpot.
Hire a Mueller to investigate BK for as many years as it takes to find or manufacture whatever it takes to make him unemployable and put him in prison.
The new Progressive paradigm has been set.
“The same reason Maryland isn’t investigating the crimes Edgar Alan Poe tabulated in his books.”
Can you say more about this?
You know ford got felt up when she was 15 by some boy. I challenge anyone here, male or female, how is teen petting a crime? Geese, anyone here remember the TV show HAppy days?
I can’t remember now what grade we read that in.
Because they’re FICTION!!
Oh. It wasn’t clear what you meant.
Not to minimize groping, but, we are being told that her entire life was messed up due to this. Yet she’s an accomplished process woman who has multiple degrees from higher education institutions, including a PhD.
Yup destroying a man’s life over a juvenile misdemeanor makes so much sense.
Useless it explaining to Flake, Murkowski and Collins who are under the mistaken impression it involved a felony.
We’re blessed with truly stupid people in our country.
Plus the statute of limitations has run out.
Me neither. It was somewhere in the 8th-11th range here.
Please God, let this be true.
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