By 'it' you mean the defense attorney. We haven't heard the tape, thus, it is a rumor.
Well, this is a complex question. The case resulted in a conviction, and evidentially, "forcible rape of a child" is a different law in this state from statutory rape.
But, unless the prosecutor had this tape and concealed it, this is not a Brady violation.
It's not a mistake in how the judge ran the trial.
Etc.
It's a claim of actual innocence to the charge he was convicted on, even though he can't beat a lesser charge.
I'm not sure this man will get a new trial. Actual innocence is not a strong case on appeal.
Due process requires a fair trial, which this man doesn't deny he received. It does not require perfect results, factually.
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Well, the way the story was written, it sounded like the police were in agreement with the defense attorney that the cellphone video contradicted the girl's story. But maybe that was just the way the reporter wrote the story....But it says the "police accessed cellphone video that contradicts her claim that she was pinned down and gang raped". The description of her as "laughing and giggling and engaging in consensual sexual acts" does come from the defense attorney.....If indeed the POLICE are saying the video contradicts the girl's story, I would not call it a rumor----but agree we need more info.
No, I don't think that should be a crime if she was conscious and a willing participant. You can't often tell if a person is blacked out drunk, unless of course they are really, really obviously trashed and barely conscious. But its not often obvious if someone won't remember or out of their mind. Some people handle being really drunk well. What if the guy is drunk as well? It's effecting his judgement so he may not be able to know she was overly inebriated.
I had a chance once for a one night stand but didn't go through with it for a couple reasons, one was the woman suddenly was really drunk and slurring, and then there was the fact she said to her self "hmm, the smart guy or the tall guy" like she was thinking of going home with another guy she was talking to when I went to the bathroom. Stupid brain getting in the way of my penis once again
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Heh. When I was in my early 20's, I was built like a football player back in those days. [Well, I WAS a football player in high school, and kept myself in very good shape at least through my mid-20's, before all my beer drinking started to get to me, heh.] And I had this T-shirt that said: I'm With Stupid. Of course, a LOT of people had a T-Shirt that said that. But on MY T-shirt, the arrow was pointing straight DOWN!
Well. You'd be amazed at how many young ladies wanted to meet Mr. Stupid.
But yeah, I knew a LOT of guys who would get drunk, and end up going home with some girl, and would wake up in bed the next morning, and be HORRIFIED at what they had dragged home with them. The eyes don't function as well at closing time. Men have regrets, too......
Actually rape is the most underreported because women are not believed and shamed.
Who ever said sexually assaulted children don’t matter if their females? Women who sexually assaulted or punished much harsher than men. The women that we read about all have very harsh sentences. It is sad that anyone is sexually assaulted but to say that women do it as much is u true. In all my years of teaching sex education and reading private journals written to me I have picked up sexual abuse and every single one of them was by a man . To make them comparable in my opinion is disingenuous. Anyone sexually assaulted by anyone is equally as bad
Wait, what? That's NONSENSE! Many of these female teachers who have been found guilty of assaulting male students have not done ANY PRISON TIME WHATSOEVER!! You can scroll through this 'rogue's gallery' of offenders and see for yourself what 'punishments' they have gotten! In many cases, it was just probation and the loss of their teaching licenses.
40 Female School Teachers Arrested For Sleeping With Students
For example, the very first case, the very famous case of Debra Lafave: In 2005, Lafave pled guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a minor, which resulted in her serving no real jail time, as she was sentenced to three years of house arrest and seven years of formal probation.
