{"id":51128,"date":"2015-02-06T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51128"},"modified":"2015-02-06T05:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:34:53","slug":"and-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51128","title":{"rendered":"And Justice For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;study&#8221; is laughably unscientific.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;evidence&#8221; may well be cherry-picked to fit the writer&#8217;s premise.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/2015\/02\/04\/do-hot-teachers-get-less-prison-time-when-they-sleep-with-their\/\">the premise<\/a> makes intuitive sense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of these women were arrested for the same thing &#8211; sex with a minor, varying only slightly in age &#8211; so there&#8217;s virtually no difference in the objective eyes of the law. And yet some of them got absolutely no prison time, while others were jailed for over 20 years. Do you see any difference in the offenders?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/68eee1cf4f2ead15e3faa505c2b4f259\/201497923\/teacher_sex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"3040\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Justice has never been &#8220;blind&#8221;; there&#8217;s a reason lawyers tell their clients to wear suits and get haircuts before trials. \u00a0 And I&#8217;d be interested in knowing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a more complete listing of offenders<\/li>\n<li>the demographics of the judges issuing the sentences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But it does appear as if the sentence for sleeping with a high school boy is being handed down by a college-age guy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;study&#8221; is laughably unscientific. The &#8220;evidence&#8221; may well be cherry-picked to fit the writer&#8217;s premise. But the premise makes intuitive sense. All of these women were arrested for the same thing &#8211; sex with a minor, varying only slightly in age &#8211; so there&#8217;s virtually no difference in the objective eyes of the law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51147,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions\/51147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}