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Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:30 pm to Grasshopper
Witnesses, evidence, DNA, etc.
There are plenty of reasons. Yeah, it sucks, but it's there.
There are plenty of reasons. Yeah, it sucks, but it's there.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:43 pm to Spankum
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Eye witnesses are notoriously undependable to start with
That's a rather substantial overstatement.
In many sex crimes against underaged victims, many statutes of limitation don't begin until the victim reaches 18. In Louisiana, you can add another 30 years on top of that before the case is "too old" for charges.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 10:39 pm to Eternally Undefeated
What ever happened with all the cases where the FBI crime lab was found to be incompetent in their handling of analyses?
Where samples were mishandled or misidentified? Where Joe Friday was having a bad day and juxtaposed some numbers?
Can you prove you were in the fifth grade classroom on November 2 of whatever year you were in the Fifth Grade?
Where samples were mishandled or misidentified? Where Joe Friday was having a bad day and juxtaposed some numbers?
Can you prove you were in the fifth grade classroom on November 2 of whatever year you were in the Fifth Grade?
Posted on 7/2/18 at 10:41 pm to Grasshopper
I believe it's "Statue of Limitations"..... 
Posted on 7/2/18 at 10:54 pm to Tortious
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Not all cases have statutes of limitations, such as murder, sex crimes against children, etc. Super heinous ones usually don't in most jurisdictions. The reasoning for lesser crimes, aside from the aforementioned fading of evidence, is really a practical standpoint. Would you rather the going rate of prosecution be for first in line kind of thing which it would become? I commit a DWI today and know the backlog is so great that they are still prosecuting DWIs from the 80's and it will be another 30 years before they likely get to me? DAs would have an ever increasing log of prosecution which is already severely undermanned and long enough. At some point focus needs to be more on immediate enforcement.
Combine this with the stated goal of rehabilitation and it becomes a bit cleared, if someone has managed to go a lifetime without commiting another crime what is the States interest in incarcerating them at huge cost for a lesser crime, it is assumed they have self rehabilitated.
While I may not agree with it it is easy to understand.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 11:20 pm to Grasshopper
There are no statutes of limitations that involve child sexual abuse in the vast majority of states.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 5:34 am to airfernando
Maryland’s law was the sexual assault victim had until they were 25 to come forward. They recently changed it to 38 in large part due to that documentary.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 6:33 am to Grasshopper
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If someone abused my daughter when he was 20 years old I would want him punished. I wouldn’t care if he was 90.
Agree....then hunt the fricker down and take care of biz
Posted on 7/3/18 at 6:40 am to Grasshopper
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If someone abused my daughter when he was 20 years old I would want him punished. I wouldn’t care if he was 90.
Which is exactly why the family of victims don’t get to make criminal justice decisions.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 7:07 am to Morgan56
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I believe it's "Statue of Limitations".....
They had that removed, blame a Landrieu.
Posted on 7/3/18 at 7:15 am to TMRebel
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but that's really minor and not really why the Statue of Limitations exists
Posted on 7/3/18 at 8:07 am to Grasshopper
Most of the common reasons have already been stated, but one other that is often overlooked is just a matter of resources. Do you want your tax dollars spent prosecuting cases that may be decades old with little value to society other than retribution, or do you want to prosecute more recent crimes for the deterrent effect? Most people would say the latter.
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