"A newlywed wife with doubts about her eight-day-old marriage confessed that she pushed her husband face first off a cliff in Glacier National Park, then lied about his death and told authorities he had driven off with friends, court documents said....
That's one hell of a honeymoon.
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Maybe we can get these kids together:
"Mont. judge apologizes for comments in teen’s rape" Associated Press, August 29, 2013
BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana judge apologized Wednesday for saying a 14-year-old rape victim was ‘‘older than her chronological age’’ and had as much control of the situation as the teacher who raped her — remarks that prompted protests and a petition for his resignation.
What is it with the Montana school systems?
District Judge G. Todd Baugh made the comments Monday while sentencing former Billings Senior High School teacher Stacey Rambold to a 15-year prison sentence then suspending all but 31 days and giving him credit for one day already served.
Yellowstone County officials previously agreed to defer Rambold’s prosecution for three years and dismiss the charges if he completed a sexual offender treatment program. The case was revived in December after prosecutors learned Rambold, 54, was kicked out of the program for having unsupervised visits with minors who were family members and not telling counselors he was having a sexual relationship with a woman.
Defense attorney Jay Lansing said Rambold has continued his treatment with a different program and was found at low risk to re-offend.
The judge said he wasn’t convinced that the reasons for Rambold’s exit from the program were serious enough to warrant the 10-year term recommended by prosecutors.
Faced with backlash, Baugh wrote an apology in a brief letter to the editor of The Billings Gazette....
Why waste your time writing to the pre$$?
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"Mont. court halts rape resentencing" by Matthew Brown | Associated Press, September 07, 2013
BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana’s Supreme Court on Friday blocked a judge from resentencing a former teacher who got just 30 days in prison for raping a 14-year-old student, a sentence that was widely criticized after the judge said the victim was ‘‘older than her chronological age.’’
Justices said Judge G. Todd Baugh lacks authority to reconsider the sentence he gave former Billings teacher Stacey Rambold, 54.
An appeal of the case already was pending, but Baugh had been seeking to possibly undo the sentence that was panned after his remarks. Baugh also commented that victim Cherice Moralez was ‘‘as much in control of the situation as was the defendant.’’
The girl committed suicide in 2010 while Rambold’s trial was pending.
Oh. Why was that left out of the previous item?
The attorney general’s office filed an emergency petition to stop the Friday afternoon hearing. Attorneys for the state had warned that holding it as planned could throw the case into disarray and ‘‘cause gross injustice to an orderly appeal.’’
Less than an hour before the hearing was set to begin, the high court ordered Baugh to cancel it and enter a written sentencing for Rambold.
Baugh appeared in his courtroom shortly after the hearing was scheduled to begin. He told a group of reporters and observers that he decided he could not resentence Rambold even before the Supreme Court intervened. The judge also seemed to affix some degree of blame for his original sentence to prosecutors, who he said did not raise objections until after the fact.
All this blame-shifting s*** while the corrupt, sick, and perverted $y$tems crumble and collapse.
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If you have reached this point in the post I now pronounce you man and wi...., 'er, um, ah, spouse and spouse, how's that?
