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`Quentin Quail' arrest strategy.(Commentary)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960410
Author:Beichman, Arnold
One of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' wisest maxims is that it's sometimes more important to emphasize the obvious than to elucidate the obscure.
The obvious is the fact that men who have sexual relations with girls below the legal age of consent are committing the crime of statutory rape, a crime for which they can go to jail. Rarely is there such a prosecution. Perhaps it is regarded as politically incorrect to try the male responsible for adolescent pregnancy for what is defined as a crime in state penal codes.
California Gov. Pete Wilson has ...
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