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That's what I say!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 6:34
AM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] figures this is in
ohio
that is just pathetic!!!!!!!!
Let someone try to molest my daughter he will
wuish he was only drowned!
aj
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:39
AM
Subject: [Sndbox] figures this is in
ohio
A convicted child rapist could go free because of
what
a judge said to him during sentencing five years ago.
At
James Arnett's sentencing in 1998, Judge Melba
Marsh quoted the Bible
when she sentenced him to 51
years in prison after he pleaded guilty to
raping the
8-year-old daughter of his fiancee. For guidance,
she
turned to a Bible quote from the book of Matthew, WLWT
Eyewitness
News 5's Todd Dykes reported Wednesday.
"And who shall receive one
such little child in my
name receiveth me, but who so offends one of
these
little ones which believe in me, it were better for
him that a
millstone be hanged by his neck and that he
were drowned in the depth of
the sea," Marsh read.
After years of legal wrangling, a U.S.
District Court
judge has now overturned Marsh's decision,
essentially
ruling that quoting the Bible in court violated
Arnett's
right to due process, Dykes reported.
An attorney for Arnett, who's
still in prison, said
he's pleased with the ruling and added
that
law-breakers need to be sentenced by the same
standards.
Marsh was not available for comment, Dykes reported.
The next
step will take place on a yet-to-be
determined date when the Ohio
attorney general must
decide whether to appeal the new ruling or push
to
have Arnett resentenced.
Otherwise, Arnett could be a free
man.
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