Sixty five years ago, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a juvenile sentence of this type. One can only wonder why this prosecutor and judge can't see what was long ago obvious. Marc
From: Steve Sanders [mailto:steve...@umich.edu] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 09:05 PM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' <religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu>; conlawp...@lists.ucla.edu <conlawp...@lists.ucla.edu> Subject: RE: Go to Church or Go to Jail? I suspect the response from the Alabama legislators would actually be more truculent! ________________________________ From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:58 PM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu; conlawp...@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Go to Church or Go to Jail? First, this is hilarious. Second, it reminds me of my cousin, who is a principal at a public high school in Kentucky. When we were visiting several years ago, he left dinner early to draft the school prayer to be read over the PA for the next day. When I joked that that might be a problem for the Supreme Court, he just smiled. I would imagine that would be the response from the Alabama lawmakers on this issue. [cid:887100401@27092011-0C7E] Marci A. Hamilton Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University 55 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 215-353-8984 In a message dated 9/26/2011 5:41:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ma...@law.villanova.edu writes: That’s what it appears to be (sorry for cross-posting but this should be useful to subscribers on both lists looking for an exam question, to say nothing of the expected discussion). http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/26/jesus-or-jail-alabama-town-offers-options-for-serving-time/?hpt=hp_t2 Headline and first paragraph: Jesus or jail? Alabama town offers options for serving time<http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/26/jesus-or-jail-alabama-town-offers-options-for-serving-time/> If you're charged with a nonviolent crime in one Alabama town, you might just have the chance to pray it all away. Starting this week, under a new program called Operation ROC (Restore Our Community), local judges in Bay Minette, Alabama, will give those found guilty of misdemeanors the choice of serving out their time in jail, paying a fine or attending church each Sunday for a year. James Edward Maule Professor of Law Villanova University School of Law ma...@law.villanova.edu http://vls.law.villanova.edu/prof/maule = _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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