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423. So who's scarier?

By Joel Jacobsen

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported: The Assembly approved legislation Wednesday that would make it a crime to not report violent attacks... Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, the measure's author, said the bill closes a loophole in state law, which previously required people to report a violent crime only if it is being committed against a child younger than 14.If the Senate passes Nava's measure, witnesses would have to report any rape, murder or violent crime they see, regardless of the age of the victim. You can read a marked-up version of the bill here and a legislative analysis here. Arlen Specter, the party-switching Pennsylvania Senator, recently proposed that witness intimidation be made a federal crime, though it seems pretty useless to backstop ineffectual state laws with an identical federal one...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).