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Filler on Kennedy

By Corey Rayburnyung

Dan Filler has a pair of interesting posts at the Faculty Lounge connecting the Kennedy case with the issues surrounding Megan's Law.  First, he emphasizes the commonality of rhetoric used to support Megan's Laws and the Louisiana capital child rape statute:Now it seems that the state amici in Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court's upcoming child-rape death penalty case, are playing the same game.  In their brief, Attorneys General from Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Washington argue that child rape has a devastating effect on society.  The crime is devastating for kids - no doubt.  But the following paragraph, which follows directly under this claim, looks an awful lot like the bolstering we saw in legislative debates over Megan's Law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).