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And the prosecutors and the police.
Caught using DNA: nurse who impregnated a woman in a coma was a "Christian rapper."
Now all of us who are exposed to his verdict are victims too, but not like the girl and her loved ones who together will have to bear this forward through time. Me, I believe I lack the strength of character to not indulge my darker angels should such a matter ever touch my wife or daughters. I believe I would indulge my rage on both the rapist and the judge. My outburst would, of course, not undo what had been done and it may well cause my family additional pain. To be certain I am a flawed creature.
I assume that’s about the guy who kidnapped and kept a teen girl in a dog cage where he raped her and beat her but when was found guilty he was let out on probation?
I think this is the third story. That one, the bus driver and then the one I posted....but not sure.
It varies but who do you think is more deserving of serious jail time, a man who kidnaps a teen, starves her, abuses her and rapes her or a woman who shoots her rapist 2 days after the attack?
Your base case seems like an outlier. I don’t see how he could have been punished so little unless someone screwed up so bad that a bunch of evidence got tossed. He should be spending most of his life in prison.
I think it is, yes.
Thought I saw the state appeals court already reversed this and reprimanded the judge
They did. Shouldn't have happened in the first place. How is someone a judge with that thought process?
I'm going to push back on this one. We should generally not be trying minors as adults. I can be talked into exceptions, and maybe this is one of those, but it should require clearing an exceptionally high bar.
Reasonable people can disagree on that line. “He comes from a good family” isn’t it.
Exactly this. The reasoning put forth is disgusting. Especially this part:
How about a guy sending around a video of him raping a girl with the text “when your first time having sex is rape”?
He's just a kid though. And he comes from a good family and he's going to a good school.
I agree. This sort of thing is a racially-coded way of allowing white kids leniency for crimes they commit while minors, but still prosecuting black kids as adults. The solution to that problem is to treat black kids the way we currently treat white kids, not to treat white kids the way we currently treat black kids.
I think there’s a place for trying minors as adults and this kid falls squarely into it.
I'll defer to your judgement because I know this is your line of work, and I don't think there's anything inherently outrageous about inflicting severe criminal penalties onto a 16 year-old who deliberately commits a violent crime. That said, I do want to reiterate that the state should have to clear a tall bar to subject a minor to adult charges and that holds in all cases.
I agree that we shouldn't try minors as adults. But the problem here is that this minor was treated differently because of his status.
That I agree with, and I definitely meant it’s my personal opinion and not my professional judgment.
Oh, absolutely. I don’t think many people intentionally argue that we should make everything worse for the privileged. Certainly many people with privilege hear it that way so either someone’s making that argument or the argument is poorly stated.
