https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/europe/valerie-bacot-trial-verdict-cmd-intl/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/europe/valerie-bacot-trial-verdict-cmd-intl/index.html)
What an amazing story. There is a lot to comment on there, not the least of which how bad a job society does at dealing with a situation like this BEFORE it comes to shooting the asshole. Or hell, before it comes to letting the asshole marry the child he is raping.
But anyway, this is such a great example of a case where you cannot really imagine a legal structure to handle the scenario - where it would be nearly impossible to craft a law to account for the moral reality of this particular crime, while not leaving open a lot more crimes that are similarish in the facts, but not in the moral conclusion.
IMO, this is a murder where the outcome should be pretty much exactly what the prosecution is asking for - and why we need a justice system that allows for prosecutorial and judicial discretion in how cases are handled, prosecuted, and sentences administered.
Note: I am only commenting here on what happened AFTER she murdered her asshole husband, not everything that happened before that point.
Someone should be responsible for being Berkut's editor.
That 1.5 font size really saves space though.
Easier to print these posts, that's for sure.
A center for ants??!?
First of all, very wise action by the prosecutor. I don't think this person is in any danger of doing this again. Exactly the right thing to do.
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on the other stuff. One would think marrying a teenager as a grown ass adult and getting her pregnant would have been a red flag to somebody.
Quote from: The Brain on June 25, 2021, 10:41:35 AM
A center for ants??!?
The posts are
in the computer.
I wonder why it does that sometimes when you paste a URL. Bizarre.
Quote from: Valmy on June 25, 2021, 10:41:55 AM
One would think marrying a teenager as a grown ass adult and getting her pregnant would have been a red flag to somebody.
Her mother (who was the boyfriend of the perp) saw him go to jail for raping a teen, then invited him back into her house (where she had a teenage daughter), then kicked her daughter out of the house, saw her by-then ex-boyfriend marry her daughter, and now claims that it all happened behind her back.
It was probably only pity that kept Valerie Bacot from shooting her, too: it was a pity she ran out of bullets.
If there was ever a defense of "he needed killing," this case uses it.
By the way, what a great title for Bacot's book. Nails it in one.