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Bakari Sellers: CDV Laws Need Strengthening

(Columbia, SC)…Representative Bakari Sellers today announced that on December 3rd he will pre-file legislation to strengthen Criminal Domestic Violence laws in South Carolina. Highlights of Rep. Sellers bill include… * Increases penalty for first offense criminal domestic violence from 30 to 180 days. * Clarifies that the amount of bond is…

(Columbia, SC)…Representative Bakari Sellers today announced that on December 3rd he will pre-file legislation to strengthen Criminal Domestic Violence laws in South Carolina.

Highlights of Rep. Sellers bill include…

* Increases penalty for first offense criminal domestic violence from 30 to 180 days.
* Clarifies that the amount of bond is at the discretion of the judge, which is now limited to a $5,000 cap.
* Court must order domestic abuse counseling, including anger management.
* Makes it unlawful for a person convicted of CDV to ship, transport, or receive a firearm or ammunition and to provide the surrender of firearms to county sheriff.

“With recent national studies showing that South Carolina ranks #1 in deaths by criminal domestic violence and that our state is now ranked as the 5th most violent state in the country, we must work harder to prevent criminal domestic violence in South Carolina and also make the penalties more severe for those who do break the law,” said Rep. Sellers.

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12 comments

Squishy123 October 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm

I notice he didn’t push for stronger DUI laws.

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edr October 28, 2013 at 7:39 pm

He did not try to get traffic laws upgraded. He has about 12 traffic in 5

counties

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Mike October 28, 2013 at 8:42 pm

It’s a damn shame you both cannot support him for adding some teeth to this law!

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Smirks October 28, 2013 at 10:07 pm

Doing something good doesn’t negate doing something extremely bad. Sellers rightly deserves to be criticized.

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Mike at the Beach October 29, 2013 at 12:30 am

Not to mention that this knee-jerk pandering is just unworkable. One hundred and eighty day sentences are served in the State prison system. We’d best get on building a couple of really big ones. Moreover, Sellers’ legislation would require a six month prison haul for a 30 or 40 year old guy with no record who slips up one night and pushes his wife – silly. That guy needs 30 days or a fat fine. Second offense? Have at it- give ’em 10 years for all I care. The research on this is clear; domestic homicides are rarely committed by first time offenders. These idiots are career wife-beating jackasses with multiple arrests, Orders of Protection, etc. Drunks on the road kill way more people than wife beating losers, but drunks have a constituency (and own the statehouse due to the influence of the over-represented defense attorney caucus). Hopefully the Solicitors get together and talk this kid off the ledge…

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sweepin October 29, 2013 at 7:17 am

The potential of having a 30 year old Lt. Gov. gives me the heebie jeebies. And the potential for his becoming Gov. thru order of succession is even more frightening.

Think Andre Bauer redux less 4 years and a different Party label.

Bakari classmate October 29, 2013 at 8:34 am

Not to mention his getting caught breaking the honor code in law school. Not sure why Fits has never done an article on that.

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Smirks October 28, 2013 at 10:03 pm

Glad he cares about CDV victims more than he does pedestrians and other drivers who may have to make a quick dodge when he drives by them some nights.

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euwe max October 29, 2013 at 1:12 pm

Whut? You mean the gummit gonna tell me how ta run mah fambily? They gonna have ta kill me furst!

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Police state USA October 30, 2013 at 10:50 am

They will eventually. Even if you refuse to pay a parking ticket long enough, even it ends up with a state enforcer shooting you dead in many places.

Example:

Don’t pay for a few years, get a warrant issued against you(in some places), you get pulled for something else or simply are asked to provide ID for some reason, like if you are in the area of a crime, then the officer tells you that you are going to jail over the parking ticket warrant when he runs his background check, you say “no” again or resist further because after all, it’s just a parking ticket, he shoots you dead. End of story.

Best to obey your masters.

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euwe max October 30, 2013 at 11:44 am

If everyone was armed, when the cops show up, we could shoot them first.

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SC Is Out Of Order October 29, 2013 at 6:46 pm

Waste of time. Will not deter a damn thing. Especially with all these psychotic women in South Carolina who lie through their teeth. Then you have South Carolina judges who say things like this in front of dozens of witnesses >>> “don’t you know the laws in this state are for the women”? —- SC Judge Jack Guidalia.

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