Paroling Murderers
2009-10-23 - by
Over in Beijing Governor Perdue’s taking a break from her stressful junket to China to teleconference with reporters back home and say it’s just awful, terrible and cruel and her feathers are all ruffled because twenty murderers are about to be released due to a strange law passed 25 years ago.
Now, stop a minute to think.
The state’s known of this problem for quite awhile. So these murderers getting paroled is not a surprise. Which means the Governor’s had quite a while to find a solution – but hasn’t. Or didn’t. But now it’s hit the newspapers it’s got her attention big time and she’s hand-wringing and grand-standing way over in China – but still hasn’t solved the problem.
Now, surely there is a legal way to keep twenty murderers in prison. I’m no lawyer but, after all, how does the legislature retroactively shorten a prison term the courts and a jury set? That sure sounds like the legislature’s trampling on the Judicial Branch – heck, why have judges and juries if politicians can change their verdicts (or at least the sentences). Maybe the Governor should have put the best legal minds in the country to work on that or finding some other legal solution.
Instead about the only one doing anything constructive is U.S. Attorney George Holding, who’s got his lawyers scrambling to solve the Governor’s problem – and find a legal way to keep the felons in jail.
This is one heck of an example of how government works.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats
Paroling Murderers
2009-10-23/
Over in Beijing Governor Perdue’s taking a break from her stressful junket to China to teleconference with reporters back home and say it’s just awful, terrible and cruel and her feathers are all ruffled because twenty murderers are about to be released due to a strange law passed 25 years ago.
Now, stop a minute to think.
The state’s known of this problem for quite awhile. So these murderers getting paroled is not a surprise. Which means the Governor’s had quite a while to find a solution – but hasn’t. Or didn’t. But now it’s hit the newspapers it’s got her attention big time and she’s hand-wringing and grand-standing way over in China – but still hasn’t solved the problem.
Now, surely there is a legal way to keep twenty murderers in prison. I’m no lawyer but, after all, how does the legislature retroactively shorten a prison term the courts and a jury set? That sure sounds like the legislature’s trampling on the Judicial Branch – heck, why have judges and juries if politicians can change their verdicts (or at least the sentences). Maybe the Governor should have put the best legal minds in the country to work on that or finding some other legal solution.
Instead about the only one doing anything constructive is U.S. Attorney George Holding, who’s got his lawyers scrambling to solve the Governor’s problem – and find a legal way to keep the felons in jail.
This is one heck of an example of how government works.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats