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FIRST FRIDAY IN OCTOBER

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Good Friday Morning!!!! The Dolphins play the cheaters at home Monday night, and speaking of Monday....while the first Friday is October is meaningless, the First Monday is not. We welcome a new Supreme Court and the first term of Obama's second appointment- Justice Kagan. Regarding the post yesterday about Judge Glick and the pregnant defendant, the comments were solidly against Judge Glick's sentence. However, we are surprised no one has mentioned this: When you incarcerate a pregnant woman, you are incarcerating an innocent child. The child will be born in prison and then taken away from her mother. What an awful way to start a life. Our question is this: were the crimes of the defendant so horrible and was her conduct so dangerous to the community that the need for incarceration outweighs the child's needs? Just a thought...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).