I know who you got the quotes from Pat. I listened to the actual courtroom sentencing on that very channel.

The quote Lee sent you proves my point:

"But Judge Cashman said the 60-day sentence guaranteed that Hulett would get into sex offender rehabilitation quickly or face a possible life sentence. He said he had no choice because the Corrections Department classified Hulett as a low risk offender meaning he can't get treatment until he's out of jail."

Can you see it there, Corrections would have released this sex offender in order that he get treatment(agin not the Judges fault), which in his case was only available on the outside(agin not the Judges fault). What you don't have here is the fact that he could have received treatment in jail but because of the rules mentioned here in terms of this offenders classification(agin not the Judges fault), AND, because our legislature had not authorized monies so that an offender of his classification could receive treatment in prison(agin not the Judges fault).

Since this brouhaha broke, the legislature has made moneys available so that this dubious treatment can occur, in jail, for an offender of his classification; and the offender, has been resentenced accordingly(the Judges doing).

Judge Cashman, quite apart from O'Reilly or WCAX, took a calculated risk and sentenced in accordance with what was actually going to transpire due to legislative rule making. I believe he did it to illustrate for the public the shortcomings of the rules he is bound to follow but did not create, in hopes of nudging the legislature to fix this problem they inadvertently created.

And Pat, something else Lee could have told you about me but assuredly didn't:

If it were up to me, I would solve this problem one offender at a time as they crop up, by applying the death penalty to rapists and child molesters. It may not deter anyone else, but it insures, that one will never harm an other innocent. Pedaphiles are notorious repeat offenders.

Finally, as with O'Reilly in this instance, Lee has an agenda too. But thanks fer playing along Pat.

The thing is I have no respect for any of you three.