Life in prison for adultery??? As the law stands now...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/16487863.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_nation

"DETROIT - In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."

"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code.

No one expects prosecutors to declare open season on cheating spouses. The ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike Cox, whose office triggered it by successfully appealing a lower court's decision to drop CSC charges against a Charlevoix defendant. In November 2005, Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship..."

but he's especially hard on the family.:rofl:

:toast:

Hmmmm, maybe I should rephrase that a little . . .

He's the first guy who should be prosecuted under this law!

Nice to know we live in a tolerant country. :eyes:

I'm sure their stock will soar. The land of the free will have the chance to put even more of it's citizens in jail and deny them the right to vote. But what the hell, we never know if they actually count them or not anyway. We do know the "Decider" doesn't give a rat's ass what we vote for in any event.

NO UNAPPROVED SEX!!!

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

and get listed on a website so their neighbors can spit on them.

"Oops! Your honor, I accidentally shot an unGodly, unAmerican sex offender."

himself under the statute - he has confessed to an adulterous affair.

hee, hee, hee - chickens home to roost and all....

They do need to get rid of such ridiculous morality laws, but I think it's only fair that the AG should be the first to face the music under his own pet prosecutions.

I mean repubs are the "family values" & "personal responsibility" & "law and order" party aren't they???????

or the person banging them?

as well as wacky fundie ministers in Michigan.

See my post below, Adultery was NOT part of the underlying case, it was given as an example of a Crime that could be used to give someone life imprisonment under this poorly drafted statute (Through just repealing Adultery as a Felony would also eliminated this problem).

Here is the Opinion of the Court:
http://courtofappeals.mijud.net/DOCUMENTS/OPINIONS/FINAL/COA/20061107_C270229_28_270229.OPN.PDF

The Legislature of Michigan has defined various sex crimes and called them "Criminal Sexual Conduct" or CSC. CSC-1 occurs whenever a person "Penetrates" another person while committing another Felony. In this case the Felony was selling Oxycontin for sex. The "Penetration" was the consensual Sex act in exchange of the Oxycontin. Under Michigan law anyone convicted of a CSC-1 can be sentenced to life imprisonment.

There was NO Adultery occurred in this particular case. The Adultery angle occurred in that Adultery is still a felony in Michigan (Through no one has been convicted since 1971). Given that Adultery is still a felony, under the Wording of CSC 1, penetration while committing adultery meets the requirements of CSC-1 enhanced penalties (i.e. Life Imprisonment).

The Michigan papers found out about this decision and ran with it for the Attorney General of Michigan in 2005 admitted to having had an Adultery Relationship. As this statute is Written the Attorney General could have been convicted of CSC-1 and sentenced to Life imprisonment. Given that the Attorney General was the one who filed this appeal and won on appeal, that fact was just to good to be left alone.

Thank you, happyslug.:-)

(Sorry for the dupe. I did check to see if it had been posted, but I guess I didn't look far enough back.)

I mean, Come On!

but then I got it!

:rofl:

and "what you don't want our laws enforced!"

:puke: