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Bill: Bill for Protecting the Rights of the Legally Innocent
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sunbeam Squad
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 3529
Description[?]:
Someone accused of a crime is not necessarily a criminal, and he should not be treated as such. Innocent until proven guilty. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's position towards the use of forensic DNA databases.
Old value:: DNA from persons accused or convicted for a crime is recorded.
Current: Only DNA from persons convicted of crime is recorded.
Proposed: Only DNA from persons convicted of crime is recorded.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 18:10:12, August 11, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Bill for Protecting the Rights of the Legally Innocent |
Message | Mr. Speaker, We AGREE that citizens are INNOCENT first until proven guilty. However, if a person is ACCUSED of raping a woman, the police NEED to aquire his DNA sample in order to CONFIRM that he is innocent or guilty. Current law is COMMON-SENSE. --CWFP Spokesman |
Date | 18:15:30, August 11, 2013 CET | From | Sunbeam Squad | To | Debating the Bill for Protecting the Rights of the Legally Innocent |
Message | Mr. Speaker, The present law not only allows for the collection of DNA for the accused, it automatically stores their DNA in a national database. Furthermore, those who are accused of a crime are not always rapists, nor are they proven guilty of the crime of which they are accused--should their rights be infringed? Amelia Granger SS Leader |
Date | 14:42:01, August 12, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Bill for Protecting the Rights of the Legally Innocent |
Message | Ms. Granger, Current law ONLY stores DNA in a national database for the ACCUSED and the CONVICTED. Ordinary citizens are NOT subject to such a database. --CWFP Spokesman |
Date | 17:42:14, August 12, 2013 CET | From | Sunbeam Squad | To | Debating the Bill for Protecting the Rights of the Legally Innocent |
Message | Mr. Speaker, We are well aware that citizens who are neither convicted or accused of a crime do not have their DNA recorded in a database. Our concern is for the rights of Rutanians who are not yet convicted of a crime--they may very well not have committed the crime they are accused of. Why then should they be lumped with criminals? All we ask is for the Parliament to approach this matter rationally. The rights of Rutanians are at stake, and members of Parliament should be capable more than just a knee-jerk reaction. Someone accused of a crime could very well be completely innocent; and any reasonable person could see that being accused of a crime does not mean that one should have his civil rights diminished (for as long as the database exists; in perpetua as far as we are concerned) nor does being accused of a crime should diminish one's standing as a Rutanian citizen. Amelia Granger SS Ldr |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 320 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 173 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
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