Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Hey Michigan- Get your nose out of my pants

Oy.

If you're unfaithful to your spouse in Michigan, you could land in prison for life.

"It's a lot of time for somebody to be put away for a mistake they might have made," Brenda DeLaCruz of Lansing said.

"Our court system has gotten into the family life," said Bob Utrup, who lives in Delta Township. "And sometimes, it doesn't know how to get back out."

The decision came from the Michigan Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel ruled that adultery can be considered criminal sexual conduct. That's because adultery is already a felony, and certain sex acts committed while a felony is taking place amount to first degree criminal sexual conduct.

A conviction on that charge includes a maximum penalty of life in prison.

...Now an associate professor at Cooley Law School, Flores says Michigan has plenty of outdated laws.

"There's one, seduction of an unmarried woman, which would be quite the felony to prosecute," he said.


So why don't we overturn some?

2 comments:

Daniel Greenfield said...

no one is actually being prosecuted for this

the whole thing was a publicity stunt by judges to screw with the legislature

Friar Yid (not Shlita) said...

I know, it's just another example of old laws that are still on the books but ignored. I'm just wondering why they don't take 'em off. (Not that they don't also have better things to do, but if you're not doing those better things, at least clear off your outdated legislation.)