Posted on 03/20/2014 5:48:22 PM PDT by markomalley
A former Navy football player was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a fellow midshipman at an off-campus party nearly two years ago.
A military judge, Marine Corps Col. Daniel Daugherty, found Midshipman Joshua Tate not guilty on Thursday morning at the conclusion of a court-martial at the Washington Navy Yard.
Tate was facing up to 30 years in prison if he had been found guilty.
Tate also was charged with making false statements to investigators three times. Daugherty sent those charges back to Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Michael Miller for reconsideration. As commanding officer, Miller has the final say on whether to prosecute under military law.
Daugherty said Wednesday that two other midshipmen accused of lying in connection with the case ultimately were not prosecuted in court and were punished administratively at the academy instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
Yep, another “Tailhook” for politicians to make hay of.
I’d kind of like to see a “loser does the time” punishment in cases like this. If the jury finds beyond a reasonable doubt the per was wrong, he/she does time. it’s it’s shown to be a false allegation, the accuser does the time the accused was facing.
If a woman has sex with a drunken man, would you charge her with rape as well, with the same penalties?
When somebody gets drunk and gets behind the wheel, his or her drunken condition is no defense to any bad result of their being drunk. The best solution is to tell people "Don't get so drunk that you cannot exercise good judgement".
“as an officer, you CANNOT place yourself in a compromising position”
Bingo - that says it all. Thank you for your service!
She only spread allegations when word was spread via social media about the incident.
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She never should have spread her legs in the first place.
I live in Annapolis. The woman is already a pariah at the USNA.
Her situation has already been relayed to recent grads out with the fleet.
She should be booted out, but won't. She'll do the minimum commitment and then leave the service ...
A cushy staff job in Sen. Gillebrand's office will be waiting for her.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The Naval Academy is now just a federally funded coed college. The original mission of training future ship drivers is long past. Honor code WTF is that. Time was they’d all be out on their butt. That was then, this is now.
Not unless she is also black. If she is white, oh well.
That is my comment about the way political correctness persecutions typically work. In this case, however, the rape charge was never justified. Women who get blotto and then accuse the man of doing what comes naturally when you're drunk, are just not rape victims (unless there was violence). They are just stupid and self-negligent.
That’s why God made Roofies.
Were Rufies involved in this case? I saw no mention of that, but is that what that what you have deduced as to why this woman claims she remembers nothing? God may have allowed the invention of Rufies, but it is the Devil who uses them for evil purposes, n’est ce pas?
All the signs are there
I agree - if she was concerned after hearing what happened to her and didn’t remember any of it, surely she is not so stupid as to not consider having been drugged. That’s when character counts, and you head to the ER. It’s not like this is something new on the planet....
No, the alleged victim is a female:
Allegations that Midshipman Joshua Tate and two teammates had sexual contact with the woman while she was too intoxicated to consent have helped fuel the debate over the prosecution of sexual assaults in the military.
Well, it does not sound like the young man covered himself in glory here, but he did wind up having to leave the Academy while the skank is now a senior. Also, his name is plastered all over, while hers remains unknown to the public.
she was too drunk to know
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So whose fault was it that she was that drunk? Did the guy force her to get blind drunk.
Sounds like a fine upstanding lass there, and I feel so protected knowing the likes of her will soon be commanding the military in charge of my nation’s security.
Oh, prejudice, my eye! Women do not want equality. The ones who talk about it only want equal — or often preferential — opportunity. But, when it suits them, they want inequality in the sense that they expect to get breaks and exceptions that are not available to the men.
And women are seldom good leaders and should not be in the military.
Agree with all you said.
The military can keep pushing that there are no differences between the men and women, so the unnatural result of that false assumption is what we see in this story.
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So very true.
But, then, we already know that one of the major goals of the left is to destroy the military. Putting women and homosexuals into the ranks is working quite well.
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