Don't feel too sorry for old Milosevic -- he's a lawyer by training. Not sure what that means exactly in Europe. In the US, a law degree is an advanced degree, after you get your baccalaureate*, which comes after high school. So the timing is, you graduate from high school when you are 17 or 18, then from college when you are 21 or 22, and you get a JD when you are 24 or 25, if you don't dawdle along the way.
At any rate, Milosevic studied law, so he deserves whatever he's getting, assuming he's guilty.
*My kids are studying for something called an International Baccalaureate (IB), which appears to be just a fancy high school degree with advanced classes. The older son is interested in going to Virginia Tech, which will give one year's college credit for the IB degree, which is nice. We'll save about $12K that way, and he'll graduate college at age 20, assuming he doesn't dawdle.
On the topic of DNA testing everybody, I am sure it will creep people out, but I don't have a problem with it. When you apply to take the bar exam, you have to be fingerprinted to make sure you don't have any criminal record. I believe a lot of licensed occupations make you do the same. Why not? Anybody who has access to other people's money, or health, or property, should be tested. School teachers, school bus drivers, anybody who has access to children. People who work in old folks homes. Doctors, manicurists, cashiers, bank tellers, airline pilots, bartenders.
Virginia has mandatory DNA testing for people convicted of felonies, and is starting to clear some very old cases, which I think is good. It would make it less likely for innocent people to be convicted by faulty eyewitness testimony or lies told by vicious acquaintances. In fact, I believe some people convicted of rape many years ago have been freed because their DNA didn't match the old samples. |
