by Joe Hillshoist » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:40 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_271085545.html" target="top">Missing evidence in the child porn case against could set the one-time JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect free for a second time.<br><br>Karr's lawyers argued yesterday that the charges against their client should be dropped after Sonoma County authorities admitted they lost the computer that allegedly held the images.<br><br>Prosecutors had said they made copies of everything.<br><br>But now the deputies say even those copies of the five allegedly pornographic images are missing.<br><br>A detective also testified that he recently found more child porn among 1,600 pornographic images on computer disks taken from Karr in 2001.<br><br>Karr has not been charged in connection with those images</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>Karr's release is about there being no evidence against him.<br><br>Hugh sometimes you are looking so hard for things that you miss what's actually there.<br><br>This bloke could be released because there is no evidence to support the charge against him. now there could be no evidence because there was never any, or because the prosecutors are incompetent and have lost it.<br><br>Either way thats what this is about.<br><br>You alienate people by saying things like:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Is Karr's release about CA prop. 83? GPS for life.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>When its obviously not. If you said something like "will Karr's release be spun to support Ca. prop 83?" you would have more cred.<br><br>Its a shit of a bill tho. A sex offender is a pretty wide ranging group of offences, some alot worse than others. There have been a spate of cases where people have had relationships with students, and ended up on sex offender registers, I remember one a few years ago where the offender, a teacher in her early or mid twenties was busted for having sex with a 17 year final year high school student, they were still in a relationship years later at her trial he expressed disgust at what was happening to her.<br><br>Not to condone her obviously unprofessional behaviour, but where is the victim? He was victimised more by the court's decision than the so called offence. mind you thats an unusual example.<br><br>Sending obscene material over the internet at work?<br><br>Can that get you on a sex offender register?<br><br>What if its a joke or a comic that is sexually suggestive, or a bit rude, but a joke?<br><br><br>And who is next?<br><br>Drink drivers, drug users, downloaders?<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>In a letter mailed this week to Attorney General Bill Lockyer and lawmakers, he suggested creating a place of refuge for sex offenders, perhaps at a former military base.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Gotta love that, you could have security gaurds, to keep vigilanties out, barbed and razor wire to keep stop them sneaking in, big fences and gates. Sounds like most modern suburban developments actually. <p></p><i></i>