Revisited: When is an Act Deemed Moral Turpitude?
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Commentary;
Inevitably, the indictment against former President Katsav includes overtones concerning the amorphous legal term “Moral Turpitude.”
The article below sets forth definitions by prominent “expert” members of Israel’s secular political legal, judicial establishment. This blog did it’s own search for a definition of moral turpitude some 11 months ago.
What it comes down to is that what Moshe Katsav is accused of, and even that which he has admitted to, no more and no less meets the criteria of moral turpitude than that which Haim Ramon, Yitchak Mordechai or Shmuel Flatto-Sharon were all found guilty of.