{"id":339,"date":"2007-12-20T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/20\/probation-and-the-not-quite-sacred-sunday-ritual\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:10:11","slug":"probation-and-the-not-quite-sacred-sunday-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/20\/probation-and-the-not-quite-sacred-sunday-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"probation and the not-quite-sacred sunday ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/484-beer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146188913011585506\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/485-beer.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.gov\/bjs\/glance\/tables\/corr2tab.htm\">last count<\/a>, there were 4,237,023 probationers in the united states. on friday, they all found a hero in judge andrew j. kleinfeld of the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit.<\/p>\n<p>the circuit court ruled in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/articles\/2007\/bett121707.htm\">united states v. betts<\/a><\/em> (no. 06-50205) that probationers cannot be banned from alcohol use unless their crimes had something to do with drinking. writing for a unanimous panel, judge kleinfeld stepped up strong in defense of certain fundamental and near-sacred rights:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;consumption of alcohol does not rise to the dignity of our sacred liberties, such as freedom of speech, but<em> the<\/em> <em>freedom to drink a beer while sitting in a recliner and watching a football game <\/em>is nevertheless a liberty people have, and it is probably exercised by more people than the liberty to publish a political opinion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the ruling comes just in time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uJMwMqTIkfo\">the holidays<\/a> <em>and<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1kfG56QnjVc\">the playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at last count, there were 4,237,023 probationers in the united states. on friday, they all found a hero in judge andrew j. kleinfeld of the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. the circuit court ruled in united states v. betts (no. 06-50205) that probationers cannot be banned from alcohol use unless their crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}