Sunday, July 17, 2005
Blatant Misandry from the Bench.
Case puts victim in role of accused
Here's a synopsis:
Guy meets girl. Guy marries girl. Guy and girl have two kids. Girl starts affair with guy's "friend". Girl makes guy live in basement. Girl hires hitman to kill guy. Hitman is a cop. Girl pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder.
Girl's figurative hired gun claims guy was drunk and abusive. Figurative hired gun blames guy for instigating the rage and depression that drove girl to seek her other, literal hired gun. Guy asks judge to send girl to prison and give guy the $12k that wife paid to have him killed.
Judge not only deviates from sentencing guidelines and gives girl probation, judge called guy "selfish" for wanting the "hit money" and awards the money to girl. Guy loses business due to money and time spent since crime on divorce and criminal case.
I find this ruling outrageous. Any judge worth her salt should know attorneys can find an "expert" to espouse any theory, make any diagnosis, come to any conclusion the attorney requests. This is especially true in psychology, an amorphous discipline whose myriad theories and syndromes aren't readily proved or disproved.
From what I have been able to glean from newspaper accounts, there was no evidence of any abuse by the victim/husband. The husband denies he ever abused or threatened to abuse the perpetrator/now ex-wife. The daughters, ages 19 and 17, would have echoed this fact, had they not been forbidden by the judge from speaking at their mother's sentencing.
There should be a special place in hell/prison for people who falsely cry abuse to justify their criminal behavior, claim sexual abuse to gain the upper hand in a custody dispute, or cry racism to obscure the wrongdoing of the perpetrator. True racism, sex abuse and spousal abuse are grievous crimes. Like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", society will become deaf to true victims' cries for help, when blatant impostors are allowed to prevail on such claims with no corroborating evidence. To add insult to injury, while the ex-wife/perpetrator's claims are on the record, the husband/victim was given no opportunity to present evidence to dispute those charges and set the record straight.
Here's a synopsis:
Guy meets girl. Guy marries girl. Guy and girl have two kids. Girl starts affair with guy's "friend". Girl makes guy live in basement. Girl hires hitman to kill guy. Hitman is a cop. Girl pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder.
Girl's figurative hired gun claims guy was drunk and abusive. Figurative hired gun blames guy for instigating the rage and depression that drove girl to seek her other, literal hired gun. Guy asks judge to send girl to prison and give guy the $12k that wife paid to have him killed.
Judge not only deviates from sentencing guidelines and gives girl probation, judge called guy "selfish" for wanting the "hit money" and awards the money to girl. Guy loses business due to money and time spent since crime on divorce and criminal case.
I find this ruling outrageous. Any judge worth her salt should know attorneys can find an "expert" to espouse any theory, make any diagnosis, come to any conclusion the attorney requests. This is especially true in psychology, an amorphous discipline whose myriad theories and syndromes aren't readily proved or disproved.
From what I have been able to glean from newspaper accounts, there was no evidence of any abuse by the victim/husband. The husband denies he ever abused or threatened to abuse the perpetrator/now ex-wife. The daughters, ages 19 and 17, would have echoed this fact, had they not been forbidden by the judge from speaking at their mother's sentencing.
There should be a special place in hell/prison for people who falsely cry abuse to justify their criminal behavior, claim sexual abuse to gain the upper hand in a custody dispute, or cry racism to obscure the wrongdoing of the perpetrator. True racism, sex abuse and spousal abuse are grievous crimes. Like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", society will become deaf to true victims' cries for help, when blatant impostors are allowed to prevail on such claims with no corroborating evidence. To add insult to injury, while the ex-wife/perpetrator's claims are on the record, the husband/victim was given no opportunity to present evidence to dispute those charges and set the record straight.
