Comments on: RM37 – Life In Prison Without Due Process

By: Tim X

Tim X — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:55:30 +0000

In reply to David Kennerly. Dave K. The first place I ever saw CP WAS during a Pgraph in 93. I was stupid enough to believe I could prove my innocence by taking it. So the WIDOC was the first to expose me. Do I have the makings of a law suit?

By: David Kennerly

David Kennerly — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:25:23 +0000

Maybe you two would be willing to stage a demonstration of the plethysmograph for a vodcast.

I took one of these tests at “The Center For ‘Special’ Problems” (yes, it was really called that) in San Francisco about a quarter-century ago. It was completely ridiculous and I am confident that I didn’t react to a single image in that ridiculous test (quite easy since it was such a grim collection, I might add).

It would have been/was extremely easy to defeat both by not responding (yes, I can do that, who can’t?) and providing a false response by tugging on the rubber band/strain gauge during a “healthy” image.

The Abel Test utilizes eyegaze dwell-time apparently and they claim to be able to follow saccadic eye movement. I’m confident that I could throw that one, too.

By: W.C._TN

W.C._TN — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 01:27:48 +0000

The intellectual and judicial dishonesty surrounding the topic of civil commitment for sexual offenders is staggering when laws that can indefinitely rob someone of their very freedom are only deemed worthy of the rational basis test. Any law that would take any American’s freedom beyond the adjudged term of confinement imposed by the courts pursuant to a plea bargain, bench trial, or jury trial should rightfully be examined for constitutional sufficiency under nothing less than the highest possible standard of scrutiny.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals saw fit to say that a sex offender’s very freedom is only worth the rational basis test. It seems as if the Court intentionally lowered the bar in order to save a socially and politically popular regime designed to keep registered American Citizens imprisoned for life without any semblance of fair, just due process of law. I think the 8th Circuit made that calloused move because they KNOW if they applied strict scrutiny to the program, they’d have been forced to uphold the original ruling against the program.

I was not born in a vacuum and I do not have cranio-rectal inversion. I guarantee you the state played backroom politics and improperly pressured the justices to overturn the lower court’s ruling. Everyone involved in this travesty of justice knew that this lower courts ruling against the MN civil commitment regime would open a can of worms not only for MN, but for every other state that has civil commitment laws. This case could have very well been the first death knell for civil commitment and they knew it.

The fact that the Supreme Court denied certiorari is horrific. So it seems the courts could really care less about lifetime imprisonment without due process since it’s only sex offenders being abused in this manner at the hands of the goverment.