Steubenville Convicted Rapist Will Appeal Because His 'Brain Isn't Fully Developed'

TBI ^ | 3-19-2013 | Alexander Abad-Santos, The Atlantic Wire

[roofgoat]

who pays for the attorney? I’d like to know.

[cricket]

So - for the ‘boys’; guess we move ‘drinking age’; driving age; Military Service age; up to ‘forty’? Though, that still leaves some of the boys; just still; being ‘boys’; no? At least; if they are raised as Liberals.

[pepsionice]

What I’d like to see is that as you finish the ninth grade...they bring you into a room and announce that you are now considered an adult and can be charged with adult crimes. Bring a court expert in and lay out the potential charges, and the length of time for each for a state-related offense. They deserve to know just how bad things can get.

[fedupjohn]

Well, since he claiming his brain is not fully developed, probably from a Public School Indoctrination, he should be able to to sue Barack Obama for his loses !!!

[GeronL]

wow. If he is mature enough for the left to hand them condoms and say have at it, then he is mature enough to be responsible for his actions.

[Mopp4]

Madison is arguing that a 16-year-old's brain is not fully functional enough to determine whether raping an unconscious girl is a bad decision.

And there you have the "psycho-babble" definition of "Really Horny"

[VRW Conspirator]

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.

[dfwgator]

“I plead insanity”...

“Insanity?...

“That’s right insanity, I’m just crazy about that stuff”

[BobL]

By the time this nightmare is over these RAPISTS will be demanding a cabinet seat in the Obama Administration.

[GeronL]

Has the girl apologized to the rapists yet?

//sarcasm

[BfloGuy]

They still know right and wrong, regardless of whether the brain is fully developed, or not.

I don't agree with you on that. I don't know that this jerk of a kid had even been taught right from wrong [I'd suspect not, but that would be racist]. Nonetheless, that does not or should not spare him from punishment.

That may be the only way he does learn.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Indeed...this was handled through the juvenile courts system. This farcical line of reason on the part of the convicted is laughable.

These two chuckleheads should count themselves extraordinarily fortunate they weren’t tried as adults. Were I the prosecutor, I certainly would have.

[ArrogantBustard]

Find. We can solve that problem.

[ReaganÜberAlles]

I would limit the “sex offender registering” stigma to maybe 10 years. Making it a life time thing is ridiculous. Boys like sex,.... is that a crime now?

[N. Theknow]

Madison is arguing that a 16-year-old's brain is not fully functional enough to determine whether raping an unconscious girl is a bad decision.

Had he been using THAT brain instead of the fully developed "little head brain", he wouldn't have gotten in trouble.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I would limit the “sex offender registering” stigma to maybe 10 years. Making it a life time thing is ridiculous. Boys like sex,.... is that a crime now?

Sex without consent is a crime. I suspect it has long been that way in the United States. It might not be where you're from, but that's not what we're discussing here. For your edification (courtesy of Springfield Reformer): Competency is an important legal concept and these exact scenarios are a familiar topic in crim law. Tort too. Bottom line, its about consent. If a person can’t or won’t give consent, for any reason, its rape. Drugs and alcohol are well known to impair judgement, and without capacity for ordinary good judgment, you can’t assign consent. This is true even if the impairment is just being a little too young. You can have a fully aware person who actually wants to participate, but the law will deem their judgment impaired by their youth, making consent a legal impossibility. Statutory rape. So this is why the defense was trying to find some point on the drunkenness spectrum where he could claim she was not yet impaired. He needed that to get consent. Apparently that strategy was unsuccessful.

[deport]

If anyone is interested the following link takes you to the Weirton Daily Times and their articles on the trial. Weirton, West Virginia is where the victim is from.

Weirton Daily Times.com

[Rutabega]

You know, I have seen you making these absurd comments on a few threads about this rape case. Yes, boys like sex. They (and girls) are biologically programmed to reproduce and sexual feelings are enhanced by our responses to stimuli.

However, what these guys did isn’t merely “having sex”. They sexually assaulted someone who was unable to defend herself or scream for help or in any other way keep these animals from doing this to her.

If this is how “sex” is to you, I would suggest that you are mentally ill. I do think that you are actually the kind of liberal who goes on conservative sites and pretends to be extreme in the hopes that someone agrees with you, and you can then point and laugh at the Neanderthals.

Sex, not a crime. Rape, definitely a crime.

[Venturer]

I’ve got news for his lawyer. That kids brain will never be fully developed.

95% of his Brothers voted for Obama, not one of them had a well developed brain.Including Stepenfetchit Colon Powell.Bush’s errand boy.

[X-spurt]

Holdin on to it all the time, same a seein a sagpants brutha’s butt crack will keep em heated up too.