The most interesting article I’ve read yet on the whole Kobe Bryant thing: the legal status of adultery in Colorado.
In sum:
- It is illegal, under state law.
- There is no specified legal penalty.
- The penalty used to be $200 fine and six months jail, doubled and trebled for the second and third offenses. The penalty was dropped in 1972 (but not the crime).
- The charge was not included in the indictment against Bryant, thus the jury cannot find him guilty of it.
- The last time the charge was brought up was in 1925, People v. Bright.
- The law was originally passed “to prohibit and punish the disgraceful and scandalous conduct of those who would, by their evil and immoral example, debase and demoralize society.”
Just thought it was interesting.
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Why not? Of course, I knew several people who’d have been paying lots of fines and doing serious time if charges had been filed and conviction came about.