Donn Baker, the attorney for Alred, said, 'My client goes to church every
Sunday. That isn’t going to be a problem for him.'”
I suppose sentencing a person who likes broccoli to eat broccoli falls
under the heading of harmless error. But if he decides to stop going to
church at some point in the
Much milder versions of this, such as go to jail or go to AA, have been
litigated and held unconstitutional. This plan will have a short life.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:37:51 -0400
James Edward Maule ma...@law.villanova.edu wrote:
That's what it appears to be (sorry for cross-posting but this
I wonder what happens if a Jew, a Moslem, or a Seventh Day Adventist gets
arrested. Not to mention a Hindu, Buddhist, or another other follower of a
non-western faith.
Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
If the preaching is particularly bad, they might also have an Eighth Amendment
claim.
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu]
On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock [dlayc...@virginia.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011
Oh, I just remembered. When I was the main expert in the Ten Commandments
monument case in Alabama (Glassroth v. Moore), Chief Justice Roy Moore said
that the Ten Commandments monument could not offend any religion because all
religions believe in the Ten Commandments. When asked about Hindus
I suspect the response from the Alabama legislators would actually be more
truculent!
_
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:58 PM
To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu;
Sixty five years ago, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a juvenile sentence
of this type. One can only wonder why this prosecutor and judge can't see what
was long ago obvious.
Marc
From: Steve Sanders [mailto:steve...@umich.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 09:05 PM
To: 'Law Religion
the enlistment deal is different; and lots people took it including a friend of
mine who had killed some people in the DWI and was offered jail or the marines;
he took the marines and after Nam went to law school and became a prosecutor.
*
Paul
