New Bill from Sen. Lauren Book to eliminate SOL for Sexual Battery and establish a “look back window” for civil suits
According to NPR affiliate WGCU, Florida Senator Lauren Book is trying to create a “look back window” where victims of sexual battery can bring a civil lawsuit, where previously barred by statute of limitations. This window would allow victims to file civil suits against their alleged offenders and would likely open up a flurry of lawsuits. That would be on the civil side, but changes are in the works for criminal prosecution as well.
Senate Bill 170 and its House counterpart HB 199 would eliminate the statute of limitations for sexual battery against a minor. Otherwise, a prosecution for a felony of the first degree must be commenced within 4 years after it is committed and a prosecution for any other felony must be commenced within 3 years after it is committed. Yesterday, HB 199 unanimously passed the Criminal Justice Subcommittee,
Senator Book plans to expand on eliminating the statute of limitations for other types of sex offenses, including performing lewd acts in front of minors and indecent exposure.
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Sounds to me like lawyers are padding her bank account, that’s where I would investigate. This would be a wind fall for them. Politicians need to take off there blinders and so they can see the real world. There living in fantasy land.
Sorry David, but most of the politicians are in on the scheme. Many are lawyers themselves and are just preparing the business for when they leave “service to the people”.
Case in point, commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who is now a lobbyist. https://www.floridabulldog.org/2020/01/lobbyist-marc-sarnoff-brings-big-pac-money-miami-city-hall/
A large number of lawmakers are attorneys. They know exactly what they are doing.
That’s why our government has been able to almost completely insulate itself from public accountability. We put lawyers at the helm and now are laws are so subverted that only the lawyers who passed said laws benefit from it.
Another pet peeve of mine: THE LAWS SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN PLAIN AND UNAMBIGUOUS TERMS SO THAT ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE A LAW DEGREE TO KNOW WHEN ANY GIVEN LAW DOES OR DOES NOT APPLY OR WHEN ONE LAW CAN BE SUPERSEDED BY ANOTHER.
Someone can concoct some story…charge…for an incident that happened 40-50 years ago and the one charged is supposed to defend him or herself? How can that even be possible? Come on now!
Good morning, Skipper. Do you ever listen to “Registry Matters”? Larry Neely has repeatedly hammered on the point that it is IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE ACCUSED to have any semblance of a fair trial when incidents that happened 10, 20, 30, 40, 50+ years ago are prosecuted that many years after the fact. Evidence disappears. Memories of specific details fail. Witnesses die or are otherwise unavailable.
I’m sorry, but someone getting away with a crime of this nature is the price to be paid for having a fair and just legal system. I doubt the public would REALLY WANT this kind of kangaroo court if they truly understood how easily the idea the so rabidly support today could be the one that brings them to their demise further down the road. People want “justice” in direct proportion to what they think THEIR ODDS ARE of ending up on the receiving end of it all.
I guess Ms. Book didn’t stop to think about the idea that her precious family is not immune to this idea of “no evidence needed”. So imagine if someone says that Ron Book touched them inappropriately while in his typical drunken state. Then what?
A great bill would be for the victims of sex sting operations to be able to bring law suits for being victimized by the system.
Isn’t she about victims’ rights?
Someone needs to tell this woman to her face that not all sex offenses are the same thing that happened to her. She also needs to learn that being a VICTOR is so much better than going through life being a VICTIM.
And tell her that her daddy is a repeat drunk driving offender.
Derek Logue pinned Lauren down on that subject at a public forum. He asked her point-blank: “How can you be against second chances when your own father is a DUI/DWI offender himself?” She totally dismissed the question and did not answer. Her response was to try to get a bogus restraining order against him. The Books resent it when you publicly paint them into an inescapable corner with FACTS.
Ron book was forced to admit that the registry would have done NOTHING to protect Lauren from the abuse she suffered at the hands of HER LIVE-IN NANNY.
So a statue of limitations has no meaning if they can just do a “look back” window in the future. Such B.S.
Point of clarification. This bill is not new, it was filed in August. I see no language in this bill or HB 199 concerning civil lawsuits. Both are criminal bills, thus there will be prosecutions, not lawsuits.
As far as:
“Senator Book plans to expand on eliminating the statute of limitations for other types of sex offenses, including performing lewd acts in front of minors and indecent exposure.”
She has filed no new bills addressing these expansions.
Read the article cited
I did. Read the bills.