Greenie knows too much about this…
Whatever you say Mr. Akin.
According to the jury, not rape. Mr. Labrie was convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault and faces upto 3 years in jail.
Exactly what I said earlier – guilty until proven innocent, even when proven innocent.
Verdict seems reasonable based on what the article said. Any lengthy term in jail would seem harsh though.
Say goodbye to Harvard and resuming a normal life
I wasn’t paying much attention to this case until I caught some of the highlights on the weekend news programs. Definitely a lot of gray area here, but the one thing that convinces me the guy is completely full of shit is when he said they were about to have sex, she was ready, he had a condom on and locked on target when, all of the sudden, some sort of divine intervention stopped him from proceeding.
Yeah, right. A teenage guy is at the 1 yard line about to punch it in and he just decides to quit? Nope. Never in the history of this fine planet has that ever happened.
He is either a complete liar (and therefore a rapist) or a complete pussy. Either way, he deserves jail.
^ Typical American male self-hate response. So sad.
Must have gotten his inspiration from the Super Bowl and decided to “pass”.
Actually, this happened to me twice (albeit when I was in my mid-20’s, not a teenager). I had the opportunity to take whatever I wanted. And both girls were smoking hot. But for some reason, I decided against it.
Call it divine intervention or whatever, but in both instances, I met up with the girls six months later and they were both six months pregnant.
Definitely dodged a bullet there.
Spoke to you, the Force did.
Stage fright? Weren’t you nervous first time you rode a bike?
That would have been a defense I would believe, or at would try to believe. Testifying under oath that you couldn’t get it up is something guys would sympathize with. Saying god came down the moment before you were about to do the deed and stopped you doesn’t even make sense.
Not a lawyer, don’t play one on TV, and didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but thinking that maybe the “couldn’t get it up” defense leaves him open to intent and perhaps a conviction for something more serious than misdemeanor sexual assault. While kind of hard (pun intended) to believe, saying “I changed my mind because God spoke to me” sounds better to a jury than “I wanted to rape her, but Mr. Happy wouldn’t wake up.”
Why didn’t he just say he thought the girl was getting uncomfortable? Or did he? Admittedly, I never read anything after the first article.
Maybe it was just awkward, I mean there’s a bunch of people around…
Well, yeah, when you put it like that.
A judge is under investigation after shockingly asking a victim of an alleged sex attack why she “couldn’t just keep your knees together.”
Exactly, just ask basic questions and the stories of their whiners falls apart.