Saturday, April 29, 2006
SENATE APPROVES MONEY FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUSPECTS
The Greenville News has reported that the South Carolina Senate has approved funds for indigent defendants charged with Criminal Domestic Battery. The decision was made over the objections of Senator Jake Knott. Republican Senator and former police officer Knotts said,"A man that beats a woman, he don't need no lawyer. He needs a butt-cutting. You need to take him out behind the shed and teach him how to fight a man and not a woman...let that person that's beating that woman get out there and hire his own lawyer and let him know to start with we're not going to give you a lawyer, feed you, clothe you and not let you work. You're going to have to go to court, you're going to have to pay your own lawyer or you're going to have to face the bar by yourself."
We find it surprising that Senator Knotts has apparently never heard of either the 6th Amendment or the concept of "innocent until proven guilty." We are more surprised that this former police officer never met an innocent suspect.
The Greenville News has reported that the South Carolina Senate has approved funds for indigent defendants charged with Criminal Domestic Battery. The decision was made over the objections of Senator Jake Knott. Republican Senator and former police officer Knotts said,"A man that beats a woman, he don't need no lawyer. He needs a butt-cutting. You need to take him out behind the shed and teach him how to fight a man and not a woman...let that person that's beating that woman get out there and hire his own lawyer and let him know to start with we're not going to give you a lawyer, feed you, clothe you and not let you work. You're going to have to go to court, you're going to have to pay your own lawyer or you're going to have to face the bar by yourself."
We find it surprising that Senator Knotts has apparently never heard of either the 6th Amendment or the concept of "innocent until proven guilty." We are more surprised that this former police officer never met an innocent suspect.
