Meanwhile, over in New Orleans, they not only continue to deal with the post-“Thing” difficulties, they’re still stuck with residual insanity from the past. Like this:
The same system that locked up Sims in August 2005, on a year-old charge that she had offered oral sex to an undercover cop on Tulane Avenue for $20, let Sims and her case languish.
Sims was charged with solicitation of crime against nature, a felony instead of the misdemeanor crime of prostitution, and has been in jail since Aug. 7, 2005. Prostitution, which defendants like her typically are charged with, carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
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“Crime against nature” is a charge leveled against suspected prostitutes, although the law is written to apply to anyone, male or female, who engages in “unnatural carnal copulation” with a person or an animal. Solicitation is spelled out in the law as well. Punishment is up to five years in prison.
Ummmm…. time-out here for a sec. Assuming we’re all adults here, they’re charging this woman with a felony “crime against nature” for what????? Get a grip!
Onward (my emphasis):
In 2004, Jordan’s office did not formally charge Sims in the time period the law demands, 60 days after her arrest, and she was released after serving two months in Parish Prison.
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There is no full police report on file, however, only an “incident report” with a couple of sentences to detail what police said Sims was doing that night in April 2004 along the 4000 block of Tulane Avenue.
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But prosecutors did not formally charge her in the case until May 2, 2005, when Sims was arrested again, this time on a public drunkenness charge. After her Aug. 18 hearing in Marullo’s court, when she was found incompetent, she did not have another court date until attorneys from the Tulane Law Clinic revived the case and got it dismissed Friday.
Okay, let’s see if I’ve got this right.
The woman was arrested in April 2004. She wasn’t formally charged with that until May 2005 (when she was arrested for public drunkenness). Then, she didn’t have a hearing until Aug. 18, when she was found incompetent…. and then came Katrina……
And she’s been languishing in jail, without a lawyer or trial, until this past Friday.
Have I mentioned that the Criminal Justice system in New Orleans is absolutely abysmal?
Oh. Yes, I see that I have.
so the moral to the story, don’t get caught doing the “unnatural ” because naturally nature will arrive?
Or careful about giving men what they what, mother nature may object.
grins and giggles
OH, U were telling us the systems broken…..and yet the crimes between us get deeper…..
Sorry seriously, it is very unjust…..what is the solution. I can image there are many more versions of the same story out there
My son was jailed March 23, 2007 for public intoxication and lewd behavior–he and his friends went out for a bacholer party and he drank too much and was peeing by the side of a building. He deserved to be sited. Patrick has Type 1 diabetes and was only permitted to have insulin once during his 4 day stay. He had his hearing the following Tuesday. He observed much corrupt behavior while in jail and refused to “bribe” one of the guards to get his insulin. His refusal to pay up almost cost him his life.