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1 wrenchwench  Jun 16, 2014 5:22:25pm
Tennessee law stipulates a mandatory 12 hour cooling off hold for anybody arrested on domestic violence.

Apparently that’s optional, making it totally useless.

The failure of Nashville’s Night Court commissioners to use the 12-hour “cooling off” period triggered recent criticism in a citywide study on the handling of domestic violence cases.

The Metro report found that commissioners chose not to hold suspects for 12 hours in more than 40 percent of cases in one stretch during October 2012.

This is the total bullshit part:

Around 9 a.m. Sunday — two hours after Chase was booked into the Metro Jail — Chase’s defense attorney, Bryan Lewis, contacted Moreland.

The attorney told the judge that Chase and the alleged victim, Lauren Aletia Bull, were not dating and that she showed up unannounced at Chase’s apartment at 3 a.m., according to Moreland.

Based on that information — later found to be incorrect, according to Metro police — Moreland said Chase did not qualify for the hold. He called the judicial commissioner on duty and cleared the way for Chase’s release.

According to a bail order signed that morning, Judicial Commissioner Steve Holzapfel at first wrote that Chase would be held until 6:23 p.m. That got scratched out and was replaced by a handwritten note that stated, “Not domestic relationship per Judge Moreland.”

“I thought that was the end of my involvement,” Moreland told The Tennessean on Wednesday. “Twenty-twenty hindsight, of course, I wouldn’t have done it.”

No way should anyone be allowed to release an accused beater before the cooling off period is up WITHOUT TALKING TO SOMEONE FROM EACH PARTY.

2 Romantic Heretic  Jun 17, 2014 4:10:24am

The problem is that the strong streak of misogyny that runs through our culture makes everything we try to do on the domestic violence front. Women, in the minds of far too many officials, ‘deserve it’, are property of men or are simply second class citizens unworthy of the protection of law.

Until this changes nothing else will.


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