Risking a life term to protect a child...

Lithos

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Tue May-16-06 11:02 PM
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Risking a life term to protect a child...

Matthew Ryan Hahn glared in disbelief at the digital photographs of a man molesting a girl. She was only a year old, maybe 2.

The next thing to do would be obvious -- call police. But Hahn had been convicted of burglary more than once. And the memory card on which he discovered the photos came from a stolen safe.

Hahn knew being nabbed for another crime could make him a three-striker and send him to prison for life. But the images were burned into his mind. One photo showed some freshly overturned earth -- could the little girl already have been killed and buried?

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Definitely a mind twister. I think this is one for the governor to commute after a few years.

L-

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bridgit

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Tue May-16-06 11:07 PM
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1. if there were ever a case that speaks to degrees of separation...

levels of crime, intent & premeditation x( it will have to go in his favor somewhere in the overall context, here's hoping he made all the other prerequisites that would attenuate judgment

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bobbieinok

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Tue May-16-06 11:31 PM
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2. Hahn did the correct thing

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Geoff R. Casavant

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Wed May-17-06 11:52 AM
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3. I am reminded of Jean Valjean

"If I speak, I am condemned;
If I stay silent, I am damned."

Peace and some measure of leniency for Mr. Hahn.

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