THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, March 30, 1996 TAG: 9603300011
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
I was filled with frustration after reading about the Virginia Tech rape case. The entire focus of the case has ceased to be about right and wrong and justice, and has instead been focused on legal minutiae and the inner workings of a bureaucracy grown wildly out of control.
Is rape not a crime anymore? If I'm stabbed in a parking lot at Virginia Tech, will suspending the criminal for a month be considered sufficient punishment?
But instead of charging football player Tony Morrison with the crime and letting the creaky wheels of justice do their work, the government and the lawyers and the special-interest groups would rather argue about whether ``women cross state lines to escape gender-motivated violence.''
No one, not even the National Organization for Women, seems to care that a women has been raped. Did our justice system completely lose its common sense?
BRANDON BLACKMOOR
Portsmouth, March 25, 1996 by CNB