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Main Forums => Political Opinions => Topic started by: 12 on October 08, 2011, 10:03:37 PM
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Suspected domestic abusers go free as Topeka city, county officials bicker over funds (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspected-domestic-abusers-free-topeka-city-county-officials-161404729.html)
"Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced that a 10 percent budget cut to his office in 2012 meant he would no longer be prosecuting any of the city's misdemeanors, effective immediately. Topeka city council members say they can't afford the estimated $800,000 yearly cost of prosecuting those misdemeanors and jailing offenders--and that they want the county to continue carrying out misdemeanor prosecutions as it has for the past 25 years. The county continues to insist that the jurisdiction for these prosecutions should shift to city prosecutors, but the Topeka City Council says that none of the city's five attorneys has any recent experience prosecuting domestic violence cases.
Next week, the council will vote on a measure that will strip domestic battery from a list of crimes that are illegal in the city. The vote is a tactical bid to force the county to take those cases on again."
Just wow. They are decriminalizing domestic abuse because they are out of money; but potheads will still be tried and incarcerated. I guess the idea is it's ok to beat your spouse to a pulp, but woe is the one who tokes up.
Just wow.
"According to James Anderson at the Topeka Police Department, city authorities have arrested 20 people on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery since Sept. 8. Anderson said he doesn't know how many were charged, but Shawnee County court data suggests that all of the suspected offenders were released and not charged. One man was arrested twice over the month, both times on suspected domestic battery, and released both times."
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If domestic violence is made legal will they make "he needed killin'" a valid murder defense?
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Fuck Kansas. And by that I mean mostly fuck Kansas's
judicial system. (Nope. Just, Fuck Kansas).
In all seriousness, the way this place is run I wouldn't be surprised if the county calls the city's bluff and doesn't prosecute anyone for misdemeanor domestic battery and people just go free. Kind of like what's happening right now!
"He added that the most severe cases of domestic battery would be written up as felonies, which are still prosecuted by the county."
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"They need to invest in headstones, because these women are going to end up in cemeteries," Dombrowski told the station. She said she was hit with a crowbar in a domestic violence incident classified as a misdemeanor 16 years ago."
Run away from this place.