05-31-2003, 10:23 PM
There's no way setting the precedent of "I can call you over, then get you arrested" can be allowed to stand. As pointed out, it's entrapment. Seeing the kind of emotional situations these things usually arise from, that would quickly become the modus operandi for all sorts of vengeful, manipulative people.
Now, of course, I would always support anything that helps people from these situations get on their feet and stay there. If we cut of their (abusive) line of support, we have an obligation to replace it with something, or else they may be forced by circumstance to return.
Prosecuting for violating your own restraining order only makes sense if there is no good reason for doing so. While personal responsibility is ideal, it's society's job, having intervened, to ensure that there is no such reason.
Unless, of course, the reasons are personal or frivolous. Then there's just nothing to be done, and prosecution is a matter of course.
Jester
Now, of course, I would always support anything that helps people from these situations get on their feet and stay there. If we cut of their (abusive) line of support, we have an obligation to replace it with something, or else they may be forced by circumstance to return.
Prosecuting for violating your own restraining order only makes sense if there is no good reason for doing so. While personal responsibility is ideal, it's society's job, having intervened, to ensure that there is no such reason.
Unless, of course, the reasons are personal or frivolous. Then there's just nothing to be done, and prosecution is a matter of course.
Jester