The good news? No one has been stoned to death. Not yet.
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
We cannot help but nominate the justices and the legislature of the state of Michigan bordering the state of insanity as Dumbass du Jour. Who is looking particularly dumb to you today?
