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Is There a Right to Have an Accused Abuser Arrested? | 17 comments (17 topical)
Re: Is There a Right to Have an Accused Abuser Arr (none / 0) (#4)
by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 22, 2005 at 04:25:20 AM EST
What happens to the mandatory arrest clauses in protective orders and criminal restraining orders if the Court decides there is not an entitlement to arrest? In many states these orders are not easy to get, they require court apperance in which they must confront the abuser, testify to the abuse and face cross-examination. To deny these women the protection they gathered up their courage and went to court seeking, seems obscene. To equate a protective order with a domestic violence call is too simplistic, in one the offender and the victim live together and still have a relationship, in the other the victim has moved on and asked the state for protection. Why shouldn't she have a resonable expection of protection, when the courts have granted it?

Is There a Right to Have an Accused Abuser Arrested? | 17 comments (17 topical)

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