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Anti-lynching bill

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    #32
    L1011
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    One of whom was later convicted of rape. Presume it was before the era of the DPP appealing weak sentences?


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    #33
    Peregrinus
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    L1011 wrote: »
    One of whom was later convicted of rape. Presume it was before the era of the DPP appealing weak sentences?
    Yes, about ten years before that.

    (It shold be pointed out that the decision to accept pleas of guilty to manslaughter, rather than to prosecute for murder, was the DPP's. But it's very unlikely that he would have expected a suspended sentence.)

    I'm old enough to remember the case when it happened. The sentence was hugely controversial and from memory it led to one of the first, if not the actual first, gay rights march in Ireland. Certainly the first one that had participation from a wide range of organisations that weren't themselves gay rights organisations.


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    #34
    eagnaee
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    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Countries generally only legislatate against crimes, the commission of which is a real-world problem for them. The US has lynchings; Ireland does not.

    Everywhere has lynching. The US's racist lynching ended a long time ago.


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