Assemblyman, Running for Attorney General, Attacks Pirro's Record on Sex O

[Judi Lynn]

Assemblyman, Running for Attorney General, Attacks Pirro's Record on Sex Offenders

By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: February 10, 2006
Jeanine F. Pirro, the former Westchester district attorney, made her mark during 12 years in office as a zealous pursuer of sex offenders. She remains outspoken in supporting a law that would confine convicted sex felons civilly after their criminal sentences have ended.

But yesterday a state assemblyman, who like Ms. Pirro is running for state attorney general, raised questions about her record as a prosecutor, releasing an analysis of her conviction rate in sex crimes that he said belied her public stance.

The assemblyman, Richard L. Brodsky, a Democrat from Westchester, said his analysis shows that Ms. Pirro, a Republican, allowed dozens of people charged with sex crimes in 2004 — including rape, assault and abuse — to plead guilty to lesser charges, considerably reducing their sentences.

In at least a dozen cases that year, Mr. Brodsky said, those charged with a sex crime pleaded guilty to offenses other than sex crimes, ensuring that they would not be listed on the statewide sex offender registry meant to alert local law enforcement authorities and the public that a person convicted of a sex crime is in their midst.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/nyregion/10pirro.html



Soft on pervs?

[Mythsaje]

1. Depends on the sex crimes, I suppose...

and the likelihood of gaining a conviction with the bedraggled evidence sometimes brought in by the police.

[WhiteTara]

3. depends on party affiliation

IMHO, not crime.

[thebigidea]

2. the way it should be done - undermine their supposed "strengths"

hit them head on and turn their supposed accomplishments into drawbacks.

we should've smacked Dubya with his terra failures in 04 instead of letting him get away with being the "strong" candidate. My Pet Goat, "I'm not that concerned about OBL," etc.

[loudsue]

4. BINGO!! Dubya needed to be called on his deplorable record of

failure in allowing the US to be attacked on his watch. AND FOR LETTING 19 MEN WITH BOX CUTTERS FOREVER CHANGE THE UNITED STATES.

19 men. That's ALL it took to bring the U.S. to our knees under republican rule.

:kick::kick::kick: