Cheat on your spouse in Michigan and spend life in prison?

Pajaro_Loco · Guru

RE: Cheat on your spouse in Michigan and spend life in prison?

Colombiana4Life · Foro Master

Guadalupana wrote:

OFF WITH HIS HEADS!!!

LMAO

Guadalupana · Foro Master

OFF WITH HIS HEADS!!!

Colombiana4Life · Foro Master

JOKER_ESCO wrote:

Well I guess my answer will surprise allot of u but is Yes, cause if u are not ready to commit 2 some1 they u should not be married, many people now days they just get married cause is like a fashion thing but they don’t really love each other, so it sound good 2 me……..

Let me make it clear not life in prison though...

-- Edited by JOKER_ESCO at 14:54, 2007-02-13

Couldnt agree more.

El Duro · Foro Master

WOW.. no wonder I don't travel to the states..

JOKER_ESCO · Foro Master

Well I guess my answer will surprise allot of u but is Yes, cause if u are not ready to commit 2 some1 they u should not be married, many people now days they just get married cause is like a fashion thing but they don’t really love each other, so it sound good 2 me……..

Let me make it clear not life in prison though...

-- Edited by JOKER_ESCO at 14:54, 2007-02-13

luna chiquitita · TOP Guru

I say Lorena Bobbit all cheating men thank u!

Now, all joking aside, that's stupid. NO, ppl should not be punished by LAW for cheating. That's sooooooooo 1900s (and some middle-eastern countries). Wives were and still are actually the punished ones, not the husbands. The wives would lose everything and the husband was free to remarry. Adultery used to be grounds for divorce as well, now, not so much.

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

my answer is YES!!! unless of course, its me thats the cheater, then that'd be okay. But if a man cheats on me, then DEATH BY EXECUTION I say!!!

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

Should there be a penalty in every county like this?
*Useless poll attached*

My answer is no.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070118...t_070118055859
DETROIT, United States(AFP) - Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.

And not the emotional kind.
The state's appeals court recently ruled that extramarital flings can be prosecuted as first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in jail.

"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."

"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in the state's criminal code.
Michigan still lists adultery as a felony, although no one has been convicted of the offense since 1971.
Nobody really expects prosecutors to go after cheating spouses. But the ruling has the local legal community twittering about its genuine intended target.

One theory floating around the courthouse is that the judges were taking a jab at the state Supreme Court, which has decreed that judges must interpret statutory language adopted by the Legislature literally, whatever the consequences.
Many other states allow judges to reject a literal interpretation if they believe it would lead to an absurd result.

Judge Murphy wrote that he encouraged "the Legislature to take a second look at the statutory language if they are troubled by our ruling."
A spokesman for the attoney general, who publicly admitted to adultery in November, declined to say whether they would press for legislative amendments to make it clear that only violent felonies involving an unwilling victim could trigger a first-degree CSC charge.
"This is so bizarre that it doesn't even merit a response," Rusty Hill said.
The appeals court decision involved a man convicted of trading prescription painkillers for sex.

In an attempt to increase his jail time, prosecutors used an obscure provision of the state's criminal law to charge him with criminal sexual conduct, which occurs whenever "sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony."