Re Jack Coles: According to Jim Berkland, who doesn't believe Jack should be in prison for 99 years, he was found guilty of having sex with a minor (17 year old) and the judge threw the book at him.

I think, and I very well could be wrong about this, that his sentence was without parole. If that is the case, I find the sentence unduly harsh for what he did. Some men who are convicted of violent rape get lesser sentences than Coles got.

I want to again qualify this information as coming through someone else more in the know.

The whole Jack Coles issue was debated here rather vigorously about eight years ago. One regular here actually left because he felt there was board sympathy for a statuary rapist.

Cathryn