Adultery could mean life, court finds
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code.
No one expects prosecutors to declare open season on cheating spouses. The ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike Cox, whose office triggered it by successfully appealing a lower court's decision to drop CSC charges against a Charlevoix defendant. In November 2005, Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship.
Read on , it's quite an interesting little story.
And in related news:
51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse
For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.
In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.
Coupled with the fact that in 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including the ways government and employers distribute benefits.
I blame it on football. Read on...
6 comments:
Well, there goes my flirting with Sage. I'm not all that keen on soap-on-a-rope (or is that just for male prisoners?) so he just may get the kinder, gentler Murf after all. :)
wouldn't you know that our attorney general is the first one to break the law!
I found that amusing...and the response from his spokesman(?) at the mere thought of him being sent to prison.
Hmmmm, the female version of soap-on-a-rope. I SO haven’t had enough coffee to touch that one. I though the response to the thought of the attorney general going to prison was amusing too, “You’re all on hallucinogens!”
Yes, you too better straighten up toot sweet! And remember, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!
What next? Only Missionary position allowed in the bedroom?
This shows that we have too many low IQ lawmakers with too much time on their hands.
I think all this started when we allowed women the vote.
I think it all started when we allowed men out of the cave.
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