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Professur

Professur

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Kiss Sends Man to Prison - for Life

Thu Feb 16, 10:48 PM ET

SALEM, Ore. - It may have been a borderline call, but it was still a third strike. The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a ruling that sent Nicholas Meyrovich to life in prison under a 2001 three-strikes law. Meyrovich got his third strike, a felony sex offense, for delivering an unwanted kiss.

Meyrovich, in his appeal, claimed that a life sentence for the kiss violated the Oregon Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Meyrovich, 60, an exterminator, was inspecting the home of a Salem woman in October 2003 when he suddenly grabbed her and kissed her. The woman pushed Meyrovich away, but he took hold of her again and sucked her on the neck, stopping when a neighbor walked in.

Meyrovich was later convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, which under Oregon law requires the forcible touching of the "sexual or other intimate parts" of another person.

Meyrovich argued that the neck is not an intimate part of the body; the court disagreed.

"In ordinary social intercourse, one adult does not touch the neck of another adult outside of intimate relationships, at least not without some unusual but reasonable justification," Judge David Schuman wrote for the panel that decided the case.

The court also disagreed that the sentence was cruel and unusual, noting that the three-strikes law was not aimed at the gravity of a particular crime but at habitual offenders. Schuman wrote that Meyrovich had been convicted of nine prior sex offenses before the kiss.

Meyrovich is one of only four inmates serving life sentences under Oregon's sex offender three-strikes law.
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Inkara1

Inkara1

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He's making it sound like they're sending him to prison for4 life for a peck on the cheek or something. There's ever so minor of a difference between how he's making it sound and what the court documents said he did. Besides, considering this is his tenth sex offense, I don't think he's what you would call reformable.
 
SouthernN'Proud

SouthernN'Proud

Southern Discomfort
An unwanted kiss is Sexual Battery in Tennessee, a felony sex offense. Now, to be fair, they ain't gonna prosecute every unwanted kiss. But with prior felonies, and of course depending on the judicial district, it can happen. I had a guy on for licking the babysitter's ear.
 
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