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Balance Between Hysteria and Legitimate Concern

By Michael Blankenship

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a review of the way the state handled a molesting case involving a man who is now charged with murdering one California teenager and is under investigation in another killing. The order came a day after The Associated Press reported that the man, John A. Gardner III, could have been sent back to prison in 2007 for parole violations and evaluated for possible commitment to a mental hospital as a sexually violent predator. Read more... A terrible crime has been committed and the Governor of California is correct in his assertion that a review of this case is in order so that we can learn from this incident. But too many will size on this case as a justification to continue to expand the criminal justice-industrial complex...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on March 14, 2010 (boomark / email).