Just because your wife is in another country doesn’t mean you ought to be going out with other women. You’re a good Catholic fellow as I am. That’s not the way Catholic people - - that’s not the way anybody with morals should do anything.The Florida Times-Union reports on the decision.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Judge's Religious Comments Lead To Remand For Resentencing
In Tores v. State of Florida, (FL App., Nov.6, 2013), a Florida state appellate court reversed a 30-year sentence imposed on defendant for sexual battery and remanded for sentencing by a different judge because of religious comments made in imposing the original sentence. In imposing the maximum sentence (when the minimum Guidelines sentence was 9 years, 4 months), the sentencing judge condemned defendant for his consensual dating relationship with the victim while defendant was married to someone else, and then said: