Posted on 07/06/2011 2:09:59 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of school, he didn't expect school officials to call a bomb squad or that he'd be facing up to eight years in prison and a possible felony record.
The senior prank gone awry has raised questions of race, prosecutorial zeal and the post-Columbine mindset in a small Indiana town and around the country, The Indianapolis Star reported in its Tuesday editions.
Legal experts question the appropriateness of the charges against Morton, and law professor Jonathan Turley at George Washington University posed a wider question about Morton's case on his legal blog.
"The question is what type of society we are creating when our children have to fear that a prank (could) lead them to jail for almost a decade. What type of citizens are we creating who fear the arbitrary use of criminal charges by their government?"
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Compliant ones. That's the goal.
I would agree. Any prosecutor that dumps on the kid...has a dead political career because someone will drag out a sex doll every time he runs for office.
A society run by PC leftists, and a citizenry dominated by them.
“Sounds like the real charge is Making The Authorities Look Like Idiots.”
And it isn’t hard to do.
So this poor kid pulling a stupid prank may end up with a tougher sentence that someone who killed their own toddler.
Then why bother? Drop the case.
So this poor kid pulling a stupid prank may end up with a tougher sentence than someone who killed their own toddler.
The prosecutor should have declined to file charges.
It was a harmless prank for crying out loud!
And spare me the “things/times are different now”, argument. I don’t buy it.
Textbook overcharging.
I hope that the kid’s family brings ethics charges in the state bar. (I’d say “sue for malicious prosecution” but there’s little chance of that where ANY guilty finding is made on the charges, no matter how minimal.)
Far too much authority has been vested in the hands of petty minds.
BINGO!!!!
Actually, this might explain at last why Caylee's mouth was duct-taped. She was LEAKING, that's the ticket. :/
Learn a lesson?
By tagging a kid with an unwarranted felony conviction?
Horse hockey!
Another idiot prosecutor wanting some camera time. Fire the idiot.
Call it a training exercise, and commend the bomb squad on their reaction to a possible threat. That’s it.
Memo to his attorney. Remember, if the gloves don't fit, they must acquit
re: Too bad Caylee Anthony wasn’t an inflatable doll, Casey may have gotten 8 years in jail.
I was thinking the same thing.
What if he had put a large round balloon in the bathroom? Or a large bundle of small balloons? Felonies?
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