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Why Maryland police aren’t investigating the Kavanaugh allegations
WAPO ^ | 9/28/2018 | dan morse

Posted on 09/28/2018 7:19:05 PM PDT by bitt

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has called for a “full investigation” into allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford 36 years ago, when both were teenagers.

But neither the Maryland State Police, which reports to Hogan, nor police in Montgomery County, the Washington suburb where the assault allegedly occurred, are likely to launch such a probe.

Here’s why: 1. Hogan’s spokeswoman said last week that the governor “has never used the state police to pursue investigations at his personal whim. That is a very dangerous and slippery slope.”

So while Democratic state lawmakers have asked Hogan to initiate an investigation within Maryland, he is not planning to do so. Instead, he is calling for an unspecified independent investigator, who would presumably report to federal officials.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hogan; kavanaugh; larryhogan; maryland; mdpolice
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And even if an accuser went to the local department, the statute of limitations appears to have long since passed for pursuing the allegations described in Thursday’s dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

The most serious allegation that authorities could pursue, given the sworn testimony provided by Ford, would be attempted rape. But that was considered a misdemeanor in Maryland in 1982, and that would be the relevant legal standard.

1 posted on 09/28/2018 7:19:05 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/28/2018 7:19:59 PM PDT by bitt (We need electric benches, not electric chairs.)
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Then issue a damn statement already and tell them to vote on Saturday morning dammit


3 posted on 09/28/2018 7:19:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: bitt

Also, he was a minor at the time. So even if anything legally had been pursued at the time, any such juvenile record would.have been sealed.

What a circus. I am so frustrated at all of this.


4 posted on 09/28/2018 7:21:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: bitt

Montgomery County law enforcement officials have already issued a written statement on this same subject. The statute of limitations information that you provided is correct.

No police department is going to initiate any investigation without a complaint.


5 posted on 09/28/2018 7:24:23 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: bitt
Perhaps some light on the subject here
6 posted on 09/28/2018 7:25:06 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: bitt

The same reason Maryland isn’t investigating the crimes Edgar Alan Poe tabulated in his books.


7 posted on 09/28/2018 7:26:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
8 posted on 09/28/2018 7:28:40 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: bitt

Now the left is really going for the jackpot.

Hire a Mueller to investigate BK for as many years as it takes to find or manufacture whatever it takes to make him unemployable and put him in prison.

The new Progressive paradigm has been set.


9 posted on 09/28/2018 7:33:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The same reason Maryland isn’t investigating the crimes Edgar Alan Poe tabulated in his books.”

Can you say more about this?


10 posted on 09/28/2018 7:33:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You know ford got felt up when she was 15 by some boy. I challenge anyone here, male or female, how is teen petting a crime? Geese, anyone here remember the TV show HAppy days?


11 posted on 09/28/2018 7:33:32 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: aposiopetic

I can’t remember now what grade we read that in.


12 posted on 09/28/2018 7:33:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Because they’re FICTION!!


13 posted on 09/28/2018 7:34:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: bitt
It's my understanding that at the time that Ford claims these events happened Maryland had a 1 year statute of limitations on allegations such as these.I believe that at some point later they did away with the statute of limitations...but that move wouldn't effect events that might have occurred before the move due to the prohibition against “ex post facto” laws.
14 posted on 09/28/2018 7:35:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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Oh. It wasn’t clear what you meant.


15 posted on 09/28/2018 7:35:39 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: redshawk

Not to minimize groping, but, we are being told that her entire life was messed up due to this. Yet she’s an accomplished process woman who has multiple degrees from higher education institutions, including a PhD.


16 posted on 09/28/2018 7:35:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Yup destroying a man’s life over a juvenile misdemeanor makes so much sense.

Useless it explaining to Flake, Murkowski and Collins who are under the mistaken impression it involved a felony.

We’re blessed with truly stupid people in our country.


17 posted on 09/28/2018 7:36:35 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bitt

Plus the statute of limitations has run out.


18 posted on 09/28/2018 7:37:09 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Me neither. It was somewhere in the 8th-11th range here.


19 posted on 09/28/2018 7:37:59 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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I'm not big on "chess" theory, but is it possible that the men who came forward saying they were the ones who assaulted Ford now have the green light to go public since they can't be prosecuted? Does Grassley know this? Is this whole new investigation a big trap that is about to be sprung on the 'rats right before the midterms?

Please God, let this be true.

20 posted on 09/28/2018 7:37:59 PM PDT by 50mm
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