Reason: The Truth Could Set Them Free
In late 2006, a public defender went before a Napa County judge to argue for his client’s freedom. Rex McCurdy, a 49-year-old man, had been detained for seven years at Atascadero State Hospital under a 1995 California law authorizing “civil commitment” of people who have been convicted of sex offenses, a practice that keeps them confined long after they have completed their sentences.
In 1983, McCurdy had pleaded guilty to a rape, for which he served two years in state prison. In 1990, he was convicted of a burglary and served another six years. In 1998, McCurdy says he was brought in on a parole violation for living too close to a school, contrary to his conditions of release. Prosecutors used that violation and the two prior convictions to get McCurdy classified as a “sexually violent predator” (SVP), he says. That designation let them civilly commit him to Atascadero, much the way people with mental health issues can be locked up when they are deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Seven years after McCurdy was committed, his lawyer, Jim McEntee, was trying to persuade a judge that his client was a low risk to reoffend. If he failed, McCurdy would be confined at the hospital indefinitely. Fortunately, the lawyer had heard of evidence that might tip the scales: a study done at Atascadero itself that could help his client.
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The law for civil commitment is based on the likelihood of the person to commitment a crime. 57% of the last 7 governors went to prison based on a 2013 study of Illinois governors. Therefore all governors should be civilly committed. See how logic and statistics work together when you can first pick and choose the data to fit your model?
https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/of-illinois-last-governors-went-to-prison/article_570fe718-8c52-5db3-8bc5-13d49974d930.html
Not all former governors should be civilly committed. Just Illinois governors.
I am asking everyone to carefully read this entire article, and take the time to understand all of it very carefully.
Then save it on your local hard drive in a folder marked “evidence”.
Then share it with as many media outlets and people as you can.
Thanks!
Legislators don’t want truth, no matter how much evidence is produced. All they do care about is optics and re-election. Just remember: No government within these United States will EVER admit fault or apologize because it makes the government look weak.
Exactly, plausible deniability!
Unless it’s decades later with an entirely different administration like Clinton sent letters of apology to survivors of Japanese Internment Camps..