CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling. Full Article
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i dont see how they can use hearsay evidence that hasn’t been adjucated as a determining factor for imposing a maximum or harsher sentence i mean I think the guy is guilty of sexual offenses but that has not been proven as a fact to enhance his sentence
the court is using the circumstantial and hearsay evidence as if they were facts that have already been proven seems like a due process violation to me
According to the story, Hastert admitted to the judge that he sexually abused one of the students. He cannot be prosecuted for any of the sexual abuse accusations because of the statue of limitations. But I’m sure the judge can consider that admission during sentencing.
I think Hastert is getting off easy. Look at Bill Cosby.. As a result of the accusations against him there is an uproar aimed at eliminating statutes of limitation.
Ex-housespeaker hastert should have state registry’s renamed the hastert registry…’Expand’ that.!
Proves once again this registry is a sham ,two face phony scheme.
The hastert registry ..You just got GOT.
There is speculation he travel to Vietnam and Cambodia for child sex tourism. Is this the real reason for international Megan’s Law. TV news media was awfully silent on the sentencing of Dennis hastert. What would psychologist say about Dennis hastert Champion of the Adam Walsh Act was a Serial child molester when he push the bill through. He’s also not subject to its Provisions even though he is an admitted child molester. This is hypocracy of the highest order.
This and all other organizations working to reform sex offender registry laws need to somehow point this out to the courts
I can’t say to much on this former house speaker that anyone else has already said on this forum. The man was a sleazeball. He’s a hypocrite. This is the same man who went after Bill Clinton for immoral sex. And please, no one should try to compare the two instances. Monica Lewinsky was an adult. Hastert now admits to diddling with over 9 high school kids. The sad part is because of expired statue of limitations, Hastert’s only getting 15 months on some federal money laundering charge. Kind of the same thing that brought down Al Capone instead of the vicious crimes he actually perpetrated. Hastert won’t even have to register as a sex offender. But regular people with no records are getting 3 to 4 years in prison just for having a sexual image on their computer. I won’t even get into Hastert’s politics but I will say he was a lying, disgusting creep that fooled too many people for too long
HASTERT MUST REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.
According to this article in the USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/27/ex-speaker-dennis-hastert-faces-sentencing-chicago/83584440/), Dennis Hastert has to register as a sex offender, even though he has no charges to base it upon. It’s not really going to hurt Hastert as he will be rich enough to mitigate most of the negative effects, but he does have to register.
Is Dennis Hastert being protected?
after reading this: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/dennis-hastert-prison-sentence-224676
i wanted to write a letter to Dennis Hastert but searched the BOP Inmate locator and received zero results; i even went to the prisons website in MN. where it is reported that he is being held to search for this criminal and still zero results. not sure if i’m doing something wrong or is he being protected