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rape or robbery
BillieTheBot
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/us/01brfs-judge.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
Not much of a debate I guess, but how fucking hideous is the sentancing here :mad:
Not much of a debate I guess, but how fucking hideous is the sentancing here :mad:
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i'll take 4 please
he pointed a gun at her and instructed her to have sex with him and three buddies.
consented, at gun point?
That takes the piss, rape is rape no matter wether she was a hooker or not. :no:
what's your point?
What was yours?
My point was pretty obvious.
Presumably the fact that for anyone other than a hooker, the charge of non-payment of services would never have even been considered.
damn, I need to get better at reading posts in context. For some reason I thought you were arguing something very different than what you were. I have no idea why.
Sorry, my mistake.:o
That's ok, I thought it was pick on the noob night. :razz:
Nah that's usually on Wednesday ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5izlkb836ozvIcbi13QL38OYyWVnwD8SKFPB00
That's the judge's position...
That's the girls version of events, and I'm inclined to believe it's accurate seeing that;
Also, I looked up bar association (because I didn't know what it was), and it's a group of legal, qualified peers. So she's not being criticised by the tabloids, she's specifically being criticised by other lawyers, judges and members of the legal profession for how she has dealt with this.
Will this give justice to the poor victim? No.
I go back and forth on those two points.
I am glad there was a charge and a conviction in this case. Either way one wants to look at it, the woman was a victim of a crime. In some societies and under some law codes in effect today, the woman would've been the only one punished and quite possibly with her life, even though she clearly was the victim of a crime.
Does the fact that she was willing to sell her sex for 100 bucks make this simply a petty theft if all they took was in a sense 300 dollars? (until the gun came out...I so agree, as soon as the weapon was shown it became armed...robbery, rape...what have you, but it certainly jumped it up to a serious crime). I don't know, I apologize, I am sorta rambling and trying to sort this out. We can all take comfort in the fact that we are humane enough to recognize that she was the victim.
Glad I am not the one who had to rule on this case,
Vino
p.s. The Bar Association is what all lawyers in the United States belong to. They have to pass their "Bar" exams after law school to become an actual lawyer. You can not practice law in the US without being a member of the Bar.