{"id":4516,"date":"2003-08-14T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T23:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2003-08-14T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T23:21:15","slug":"this_game_broug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/14\/this_game_broug.html","title":{"rendered":"This Game Brought to You by the Scarlet Letter A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting article I&#8217;ve read yet on the whole Kobe Bryant thing:  <a title=\"Scarlet A bears no legal penalty here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/state\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_21_2181349,00.html\">the legal status of adultery in Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In sum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is illegal, under state law.\n<li>There is no specified legal penalty.\n<li>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).\n<li>The charge was not included in the indictment against Bryant, thus the jury cannot find him guilty of it.\n<li>The last time the charge was brought up was in 1925, <i>People v. Bright<\/i>.\n<li>The law was originally passed &#8220;to prohibit and punish the disgraceful and scandalous conduct of those who would, by their evil and immoral example, debase and demoralize society.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Just thought it was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting article I&#8217;ve read yet on the whole Kobe Bryant thing: the legal status of adultery in Colorado. In sum: It is illegal, under state law. 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