“But isn’t the entire purpose of the Justice system to determine the TRUTH and punish the crime that was actually committed?”
nominally
“C’mon....300+ yrs for associating with underage girls!!”
If it was my girl he would be dead.
“We have no evidence, none, nada, zip.”
The judge and jury decided differently.
“I see no proof offered”
Not in this news article but I didn’t attend the trial.
But apparently you do not read, nor learn from past gross miscarriages of justice. Do some reading on these links, then ask yourself if this man was given a fair trial, or was the jury making an impulive, emotional decision based on zero physical evidence - only the words of some teen age girls who will NOT be held accountable, if it's discovered that they lied.