[Altariel]

Ensuring they are victimized twice.

[Smokin' Joe]

Whatever happened to a subpoena?

[KarlInOhio]

While she was detained, officers served Ruiz with two subpoenas, ordering her to come to two separate trials of Robert Robinson on domestic violence and witness tampering.

So the witness is arrested to force her to testify in a witness tampering case? Will she be beaten for testifying in a way the state isn't satisfied with?

[maine-iac7]

The problem was that she was intimidated, threatened and frightented to death of being killed is she testified - but the conundrum was that, if she DIDN'T testify, the monster would be set free and she WOULD end up dead.

They took this drastic measure in an attempt to save her life - and not have her end up just another statistic.

Drastic? yes? Strictly legally speaking, overboard? Yes.

But her testimony will put this cretin behind bars where he can't kill HER - or OTHERS.

(How many of you, if she didn't testify, and he then killed her and others, would be castigating and blaming the judge and others for the consequent crimes?)

[Cyber Liberty]

The perp:

Whenever anybody runs a "zero tolerance" campaign, they need to be laughed off the stage as having "zero intelligence."

[latina4dubya]

ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

They could really use such a law in states with inner-city war zones and a “stop snitchin’” culture.

[KrisKrinkle]

“She has never said she wouldn’t testify,” explained Whittier. “She was always willing to testify and she would have honored a subpoena, had she been served a subpoena.”

That part aside, and aside from whether or not the following should be the case, I thought it was already legal in many if not all states to detain a material witness.

[SeminoleCounty]

There is a growing movement to criminalize crime victims....whether its ignoring criminal activity because criminals are minorities...or arresting victims to testify

This prosecutor needs to be removed

[nvscanman]

If I was a juror and knew a person was testifying because they
were.arrested and caved to insure they testified I’d call that
testimony under duress and assume it was not believable.

[Forgotten Amendments]

This is what happens when yahoos create hysteria and pass these stupid laws that take away the discretion of judges and juries. We wind up with zero tolerance nonsense, mandatory minimums, stupid laws named after dead kids. And the most imprisoned nation on Earth.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Maine law allows police to arrest victims to make sure they testify

That’s a sure fire way to get them to cooperate!
What asshats........

[bamahead]

Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

[Still Thinking]

Whittier called the incident “outrageous conduct on the part of the state.”I'll say! They should have no power to compel testimony, even against someone else. Your knowledge is your property. You should be able to dispose of it at your sole discretion.