The first thing to understand about "violent offenses" is that the phrase is misleading. There need not be any violence or intent to commit violence and there need not be any intent to commit an offense. Let me give you a real life example:

Religions have historically been opposed to anything that reduces the number of new believers. It is like natural selection: since most believers were born into the religion, the fastest propagators form the major religions.

Wow, I can watch boring sex in strange, uncomfortable-looking positions with women unconvincingly saying things that would creep me out if a girl I was with said them... in super high definition!

"we need to bring the chain gangs back instead of letting them in an AC room all day with tv and internet, library books, hell, if my job doesn't cut it, id be better off killing someone and being put in jail, think about it, all the time in the world to do whatever i want, i wouldn't have to work, roof over my head,…

Cucinelli said 90+ people were on sex registries in the state for the anti-oral/anal law. So, yes, it will be sporadically enforced. There are some crazy, mean, moralistic prosecutors out there and some parents who think their kid will thank them some day for reporting their boyfriend (or girlfriend). When those 2…

How about we ask Genarlow Wilson? It would have been perfectly legal in the vagina, but 10 years for the mouth.

"Even worse, the law is blatantly homophobic"

Five years is probably just old enough for her to understand what she saw. :(

Better handling of this case? Interview the suspect's roommate as soon as possible, collect DNA from the accused as soon as possible and in general try to get a quality investigation done as soon as possible. Make sure that the rape kit is processed in less time than the normal human gestation period.

Most of those protesters probably have no idea what the pregnancy centers are doing. A lot of the protesters were younger college students (I swear those kids get younger every year...). They would get scared and confused if I talked to them by casually nodding and saying "Hi" as I walked past. Maybe they were…

I live near one of the clinics that closed (in Bryan, Texas). The pro-life activists kept babbling about the free sonograms women could get at their facility*. They talked about the web site with alternative places for women to go. The thing is, journalists and women who called those clinics found they were already…

I think I understand what you are saying, but what infuriates me is that the Colemans should not have to move.

To clarify: the job of the defense attorney is to speak for the defendant. He did not mention the victim, but that is not his job. He did not mention the police, the social media pressure on law enforcement or anything else that is not his job. The job of the victim's attorney is to speak for the victim.

Raising serial killers? Please. He is raising kids who were bored out of their minds at a movie they did not understand at all.

I could not find much in the way of surveys. The only one I found of any size had the paper behind a paywall, but the abstract said 4% of the sample of British women say they had sex with multiple partners at once on at least one occasion. I have no idea what the confidence interval was, what the response rate was,…

But so many girls I knew at 15, 16, 17 years old were so sure they had found the one they were going to marry...

Maybe Campbell is saying when he actually has to raise a child, he won't be able to handle it?

Some of these kits were collected long before the forensic test kits were available. Many, MANY rape kits were not performed and/or stored correctly, and required better forensic test kits to process.

I used to work at a company that developed forensic DNA test kits. For technical reasons, a lot of older or poorly handled* rape kits could not have DNA evidence reliably extracted (there were other problems, too). The same principle applied to numerous other murder, assault, etc. cases, as well. Faced with the…

Exactly. This is a cheap way to analyze value. In order to find out a performer's real value, you would need to determine how many people went to see the film because of that performer. How would The Amazing Spider-Man have grossed with competent lesser-known actors instead of Garfield and Stone? However, that…