Thursday, December 08, 2005

Who says the law is an ass? / The Times, 8 Dec 2005

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1915073,00.html
David Charter
"A maverick judge is making the punishment fit the crime. MICHELLE MURRAY anticipated a short jail term for abandoning 35 kittens in a forest. She never expected to be sentenced to spend a night in the woods.
In the event it was so cold that she spent just three hours in the open before being taken back to a warm prison cell, but Judge Mike Cicconetti had made his point. He wanted the 26-year-old Ohio housewife to feel the same pain as the animals she dumped, many of which later died. "