Posted on 01/11/2014 7:46:55 PM PST by centurion316
Original Title (Too Long)Navy Drops Charges Against Second Midshipman Accused of Sexually Assaulting Female Officer During Boozy Party
A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman accused in a sexual assault case will not face charges, leaving just one of three original defendants in the case remaining.
A Naval Academy spokesman said charges against Midshipman Eric Graham of Eight Mile, Alabama, were dismissed following a recommendation from prosecutors.
Prosecutors initially accused three men of sexually assaulting a woman, also a midshipman, in 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis, Maryland.
The woman said she didn't remember being sexually assaulted after a night of heavy drinking but heard from others she had had sex with multiple partners at a party.
The men were all football players at the academy at the time of the alleged assault
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Unfortunately on a lot of college campuses, and even in some DA offices it ‘s treated as rape. I’ve seen it time after time in the ER.
Hey, they’re GIs, government property, not free citizens.
What happens if you get court martialed for shooting yourself in the foot, or taking another GI out of commission?
Question: What happens to the careers of the cadets after charges are dropped? Do they remain at the Academy? Anything in their military records? I would think not, but remain cynical these days.
Drastic, but that’s something I can get behind, it is in line with biblical teaching heh.
Blackouts leave one functional and appearing "normal'. We had a case where a young female Airman came out of a blackout while having sex and she freaked and then pressed rape charges. The young man was fortunate that she had a history of drinking and blacking out and becoming a real sex machine - she usually stayed blacked out and didn't remember the "fun" she had the night before. The case was dropped as it should have been.
When the charges are dropped, they are, in theory, midshipmen in good standing and eligible for commissions upon graduation. If someone doesn’t want them to be commissioned, they might find themselves under heightened scrutiny that could discover some impediment on the road to a commission. Since race is involved, it’s probably complicated.
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