Bigamy prosecutions in this country are, in the overwhelming majority, brought as an add-on.

They ride along with a fraud case.

A man marries four women and takes money from all of them; the bigamy count is the narrative spine and the theft counts are the sentence.

Standing alone, it is a charge that state attorneys’ offices decline, and the reasons are not good ones and they are not corrupt ones.

They are: there is rarely a financial loss to a specific victim; the harm is enormous and almost impossible to describe to a jury in terms that fit a statute; and a first-time non-violent third-degree felony in Florida with a defendant of good record ends, in the real world, in a withhold of adjudication and probation.

Corinne Delahoussaye said: “I can charge this.