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17-year-old sexual assault victim will not face charges for tweeting names of attackers
Yahoo News ^ | 07/24/12

Posted on 07/24/2012 1:44:57 PM PDT by AtlasStalled

The 17-year-old Kentucky girl who had been facing contempt of court charges after she tweeted the names of her juvenile attackers, will not be charged.

Late Monday, lawyers for Dietrich's attackers withdrew their motion to have her held in contempt, after the story about the possible charges sparked outrage online.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: firstamendment; freespeech
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1 posted on 07/24/2012 1:45:08 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

Good


2 posted on 07/24/2012 2:07:09 PM PDT by Texas56
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To: AtlasStalled

Double Good !!!


3 posted on 07/24/2012 2:09:46 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Repeal Obamacare, the CITIZENSHIP TAX)
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To: AtlasStalled

Awesome!!! I don’t see how a judge could even remotely give such an order for someone that was found guilty. That judge needs off the bench.


4 posted on 07/24/2012 2:11:13 PM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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To: CodeToad
Some interesting potential connections between the rapists and the Dept of Juvenile Justice, via the school, on the older thread
5 posted on 07/24/2012 2:15:44 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: AtlasStalled

the 2 perps have been outed all over the internet. prosecutor tried to protect them.


6 posted on 07/24/2012 2:25:54 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: AtlasStalled; Texas56; BuffaloJack; CodeToad; PapaBear3625; wiggen
The boys pleaded guilty on June 26 to first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor voyeurism.

So the 17-year old girl passes out drunk.

These boys are creeps.

The criminal "justice" system has taught the boys what? Be more devious and don't take pictures next time?

What has "justice" taught her? Don't pass out drunk at the next party?

Courts cannot make this spoiled milk fresh again. Ever.

7 posted on 07/24/2012 2:28:23 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: wiggen

Better to out these deviants now than when they’re Jerry Sandusky’s age.


8 posted on 07/24/2012 2:29:46 PM PDT by 12Gauge687
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To: 12Gauge687

Quote of the day.


9 posted on 07/24/2012 2:58:33 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: sam_paine
Don't pass out drunk at the next party?

Well, that is really good advice for young ladies.

10 posted on 07/24/2012 3:08:52 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Another example of good advice. Teach boys not to rape. It used to be this sort of stuff didn’t have to be discussed.


11 posted on 07/24/2012 3:11:10 PM PDT by rem_mitchell
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Teach boys not to rape.

This teaching may be necessary today, but oddly enough I don't recall my parents ever teaching it to me.

Taken for granted and never crossed my mind. Any more than they'd have felt they needed to teach me not to beat up young children.

12 posted on 07/24/2012 3:16:43 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: CodeToad
I don’t see how a judge could even remotely give such an order

No order was given - the attackers' lawyer made a motion, now withdrawn.

13 posted on 07/24/2012 3:24:48 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies
I think the judge made the non-disclosure order, but the lawyers filed the motion. The bigger question is whether the non-disclosure order was a term of the plea agreement that the defense insisted on or if it is some rule regarding juvenile offenders.

Whatever the case is, it backfired in a huge way on the defense. Had they not filed the motion regarding the tweet these two would have only gotten the local attention that was going to happen anyway. Now it's gone viral and they are all over the internet. Epic fail.

14 posted on 07/24/2012 3:40:47 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Sherman Logan

I had sisters. I was taught to respect women. I have only a daughter, but I taught her to demand respect.


15 posted on 07/24/2012 3:56:11 PM PDT by rem_mitchell
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To: sam_paine
So the 17-year old girl passes out drunk.

I read the article and saw this as well. Alcohol abuse is stupid. One cannot defend herself if she is unconscious. I hope she learns from this unfortunate episode. She could have been abused far worse.

16 posted on 07/24/2012 4:09:10 PM PDT by nonsporting
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“The boys have yet to be sentenced for the August 2011 attack.”

And there’s the rub. Dollars to donuts the boys will walk because the judge will be getting “revenge” for ignoring the command of the court.


17 posted on 07/24/2012 4:24:22 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: USNBandit
Whatever the case is, it backfired in a huge way on the defense. Had they not filed the motion regarding the tweet these two would have only gotten the local attention that was going to happen anyway. Now it's gone viral and they are all over the internet. Epic fail.

As of last night, searching for Austin Zehnder and Frey got under 700 hits. Now it's close to six thousand. The lawyers tried to purge the pictures from the Internet, but now their pics have been replicated internationally.

They are famous. Google either name and you get page after page of blog entries about their raping this girl. Everybody who has ever known them probably knows about it by now. Including every admissions officer at every college they've applied to.

18 posted on 07/24/2012 5:10:51 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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And there’s the rub. Dollars to donuts the boys will walk because the judge will be getting “revenge” for ignoring the command of the court.

At this point, it doesn't matter if they walk. When you google their names, the first several pages are about the rape. Every college admissions officer and every employer who googles their names from now on will see that they pleaded guilty. Who would want the potential liability associated with hiring them? Who would want them on their campus? They can forget about the comfortable middle-class life their parents had planned out for them.

19 posted on 07/24/2012 5:23:03 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: Sherman Logan
This teaching may be necessary today, but oddly enough I don't recall my parents ever teaching it to me.

Ah, but they did teach it to you. Respect for other people was trickle-irrigated into you without your even being aware of it.

20 posted on 07/24/2012 3:56:16 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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