@mharris

May have to revise my stance on the merits of Wikipedia since it brought you much closer to the heart of this situation. Two weeks ago I said
“He isn’t going to jail. This is about him keeping his money. Cheaper to buy a campaign pushing to decriminalize ‘undetectable HIV’ which will be funded by tons of people with money to stop the extortion.”

Sheen didn’t have to hunt for a county arbitrarily enforcing an archaic law. He lives in one of many states with criminal ‘exposure’ vs criminal transmission laws created in the past thirty years.

It’s going to be fun watching this playout over the next year as the next step to the OSHA draft policy that I knew was a game changer. The campaign to change this criminalized knowledge law started long before Sheen submitted to play poster boy for the grand opening on the Today Show. He won’t be the face or actively campaign for the lobbying groups that will be using his experience nor will he be sending them legal notices demanding they retract the use of his name.

I’m surprised no mention here of the drama brewing between Stoya and James Dean and her claiming he raped her?

“I am no lawyer ….. ” is probably the only factual statement in that post.

A judge telling a felon to choose between four years in the military or prison was common in Michigan until the mid-70’s as well, Karmafan. I am surprised a couple only ages 14 and 15 were ordered to get married in Rhode Island, though — I suspect their marriage would not hold up to legal scrutiny today if they were to file for divorce or annulment and be declared invalid if the wedding took place there. There were a couple of southern states (at least up until the 1950’s) that allowed marriage at 14 (Mississippi being one) but here in Michigan even a judge could not legally write a court order allowing (and certainly not forcing) kids that young to marry — the minimum age for marriage has been 16 here at least since anyone here can remember.

It did not strike me as a rhetorical question, Lurking (at least the first part). Maybe my interpretation of your question was colored by my life’s experiences but questions like that have started academics researching and writing an paper on subjects like this (with the goal of publishing in a scholarly publication). If I were a criminal justice professor (my education and credentials are in accounting although I have coursework putting me more than halfway to a BA in criminal justice) I might have actually pursued that option, this subject is actually one a professor could use to justify a year long paid sabbatical, a research assistant and a five-figure grant from his university to cover expenses. It would also be a good subject for a Ph. D. candidate to research and write his doctoral thesis on. I guess I explained part of the process that an academic would have to pursue to write such a paper.

I was also reading Wikipedia article on fornication (I know, not a scholarly source) and in it there was an attorney’s interpretation of the SCOTUS decision striking down sodomy bans would likely also apply to state fornication bans as well if it were pushed. If someone had a million dollars to put into an appeal (through the system including several stops at lower courts) to the SCOTUS and was willing to sit in prison for a few years while the case made its way through the system he/she could find a county still enforcing the fornication ban, get convicted and possibly get the bans struck down as unconstitutional (that would be a big gamble, if the case were lost he/she would likely spend the rest of his life in prison).

Lol Karmafan, I’m also old enough to recall pick your poison sentences, Archie Comics, and sending off for Bazooka gum premiums. Lots of kids too young for the draft kept Uncle Sam Wants You posters as a reminder of what was at stake. Marriage with the possibility of divorce was an attractive option back then.

@mharris

All that for a rhetorical question? Since you did thanks for the laugh. Hope you had a great day.m

Many years ago my 14 year old cousin got knocked up by her 15 year old BF and the judge ordered them to get married (which they did). This was in Rhode Island.In those days it was pretty common for a judge to give a kid a choice of going to prison (minor felonies) or to join the service.

Yes, Fake Ari is the king of trolls and about as funny as Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon on the day he resigned the Presidency. I hear he has AIDS, crabs, snotty dick and sores all over his privates; is only two feet tall, dirty, smelly and lives under a bridge like the trolls in children’s stories. 🙂 If anyone actually believes the above paragraph I have some swamp land I would like to sell you right next to Sheriff Arpaio’s tent jail facility (in Maricopa County, Arizona).