Let her go, and give her a ticket to Seattla and keys to my apartment.
Posted on 01/25/2006 7:18:42 PM PST by wagglebee
For those of you who don't know, a Romeo and Juliet exception is a clause usually written into statutory rape laws that basicallys says that if the perp and the victim are sufficiently close in age, then it's not statutory rape. Normal sexual assault laws and such still apply if the sex was non-consensual, of course. This is there to prevent totally illogical situations from happening: say, a thirteen year-old boy and a fourteen year-old girl have consensual sex. It just doesn't make sense to charge either one of them.
Louisiana has a two-year Romeo and Juliet exception. The biggest one I've ever heard of until now was a four-year.
Of course, this isn't exactly a "pure" exception, because it only applies when the victim is 16-17. It'll definitely be shorter if the victim is younger than that.
But yeah, this would be the statute that our Teacher of the Week is going to be charged under.
Let her go, and give her a ticket to Seattla and keys to my apartment.
I'd be careful with that. While young guys would almost definitely vote to acquit because they don't think what she did was all that bad (hell, it wouldn't surprise me if the victim turned out to be a rather sympathetic witness for the defense), middle-aged women might vote to acquit for a different reason: they sympathize with the perp.
Seriously, I'd go older than middle-aged. And stick with women, definitely.
By the way, do you know what the toughest, most pro-prosecution jury is, as far as race and gender goes, in Louisiana? Twelve black women. They will bag anyone. For anything.
I concur.
It's an epidemic
You sir, truly understand the SPIRIT of the law.
Is that so? Most of these cases involve statutory violations of the law, hence consent isn't an issue.
I never got hot for ugly teachers...maybe it was just me
I still think this is nothing new. It was happening in my small-town high school over 30 years ago. I've heard of it happening in schools since then. What seems to be different now is that the teachers are being arrested instead of just quietly asked to leave town. That, and much more media coverage (sex sells).
If a 17 year old female performed oral on a 29 year old male society would demand we castrate him and throw him in jail for the rest of his life(as we rightly should).(well the jail part at least.. not sure if the castrate thing would fly)
Oh wow, man !
Wait a second man. whaddaya think the teacher’s gonna look like this year ?
My butt, man !
T-t-teacher stop that screaming, teacher don’t you see ?
Don’t wanna be no uptown fool.
Maybe I should go to hell, but I’m doin’ well,
Teacher needs to see me after school...
I don't feel "tardy."
Cameo Patch and Angela Comer.
Dude, these are porn names.
Is it something that al-Qaeda put in the water?
You'd think this stuff would be showing up in the tabloids for decades.
How could these women be sexually attracted to children so young. They are they female Pedophiles?
Every single person reading this story has countless numbers of 17-year-old fathers in their family trees. And 16 and 15 and 14 year olds too.
-ccm
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