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What, in God's green earth, is going on? Shouldn't these fools, at least, be in juvenile custody? If they have this crime videotaped, how can they possibly be worried about adequate "evidence"? Most disturbing!!

Please keep us posted on how this "case" is going. O'Reilly might be interested.

4 posted on 07/26/2006 12:09:49 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")

If they have this crime videotaped, how can they possibly be worried about adequate "evidence"?

Well, we don't know what's actually on the video. Depending on the states consent laws, and whether or not they have a Romeo and Juliet law on the books, the sexual act itself may not have been illegal. In many of these cases where disabled girls are involved, the situation turns out to be one where the girl said yes (disabled girls can be talked into doing a lot, apparently), but where she isn't mentally competent enough to give that consent. If the video shows her conceding to the sex, the trial becomes more technical, and the prosecutor will have to convince the jury that her "yes" was irrelevant. Depending on her level of disability, that can sometimes be a tough sell.

If they have this crime videotaped, how can they possibly be worried about adequate "evidence"?

His lawyer wasn't present when he video'd the rape, so it's inadmissible. /sarcasm - I think