Alcoholics Anonymous has been ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
If a parole officer orders a parolee to go through rehabilitation at Alcoholics Anonymous or an affiliated program for druggies, the parole officer can be sued for damages.
The thinking that there is "enough religious overtones that a parolee can't be ordered to attend its meetings as a condition of staying out of prison."
Then, how about they just go to prison instead?
One of the 12 steps - an acknowledgment that "a power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity" and a promise to "turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
A Honolulu man wants to go to trial on behalf of his LATE father who was paroled from a drug sentence.
The man's father was a Buddhist and objected to religiously oriented drug treatment in prison.
The man's father was arrested for trespassing and tested positive for drugs. His parole officer ordered him to a Salvation Army treatment program.
He showed up but did not participate and finally went back to jail.
When the dad got out...he sued the parole officer but died while the case was pending. So...his son has taken up the cause.
Now, I know why I never went to law school....if this whole scenario isn't one of the most ridiculous I have ever heard of, then Godzilla has soft moisturized skin.
The parole officer tried to keep him out of jail by giving him options. That didn't work. So, now the parole officer is being sued...by the dead guy's son?!!
It must be San Francisco.
Jail or AA? What'll it be for you?
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