{"id":611,"date":"2004-01-19T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:17:00","slug":"611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/611\/","title":{"rendered":"Where There’s No Law but a Prosecutor’s Will, There’s a Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a “sexual predator” escaped a Missouri Sexually Violent Predator Unit, he didn’t break a law. According to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s a crime in Missouri to escape from a jail or prison, and it’s a crime to escape from a mental health facility if the escapee was sent there in a criminal process, such as found not guilty but insane. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the state of Missouri, in its hurry to follow other states’ lead into indefinitely extending the finished sentences of certain classes of offenders, managed to create a means of continued incarceration for violent sexual predators, but didn’t make leaving those means of continued, un-sentenced incarceration periods against the law.<\/p>\n

Never fear, though. Prosecutors have a myriad of laws available for any occasion.<\/p>\n

In fact, the interview is somewhat limited that he could give the Post-Dispatch<\/i> because:<\/p>\n

He said talking about that now could hurt his chances with his current criminal case, a charge of felony property damage for cutting the fence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What? He must not have dropped the portion of the fence he cut away in his escape or else he would also face a charge of felony littering<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, after releasing himself from indefinite incarceration and a probable unsentenced life term, this guy goes to Florida, gets married, and apparently doesn’t commit another sex crime, or any crime for that matter:<\/p>\n

Neither Florida authorities nor investigators here have been able to link Ingrassia to any new sex crimes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Instead, he’s gone south, gotten a job, and gotten married<\/i>. Granted, it was his wife who got suspicious of his past and led to his return to Missouri. Hey, I’m not some multiple-degreed, highly-paid state consultant, but that sounds almost reformed to me.<\/p>\n

But he’s cheesed off some officials who feel that their power derives from the respect<\/i> they feel should be paid to them, so they’re going to get him. Instead of a warehouse for undesirables, they’ll throw him back in prison, and when his sentence for vandalism is over, they’ll return him to his indefinite warehouse.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, citizen. It hasn’t happened to you. Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a “sexual predator” escaped a Missouri Sexually Violent Predator Unit, he didn’t break a law. According to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It’s a crime in Missouri to escape from a jail or prison, and it’s a crime to escape from a mental health facility if the escapee was sent there in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22397,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}