As I recall, the defendant/convicted rapist claimed that he was an innocent, corrupted by the big city folks after arriving at Stanford. But someone showed emails and text messages he sent as a high school student talking about extensive alcohol and drug usage. So the claims of innocence were bullshit. I don’t know if this information was considered by the original judge.
I can relate to the victim on some level with regard to feeling that need to speak louder. What is likely the case, and that she is unlikely to articulate, is that it is exhausting, painful, emotional labor to speak at all. I’m not inside her brain but I find it unlikely she would look forward to another cross-examination. Especially as her main point to this fucktard in that very courageous letter was that she found the cross-examination to be extraordinarily painful and a huge factor in her anger toward him. Basically, after all that, he didn’t hear her at all. He genuinely does not give a fuck about the pain he caused, and is all too happy to cause some more. There isn’t a pit of hellfire deep enough for this jackass.
I would like to add in that the area behind the dumpster enclosure is not very visible. The path between the domiciles is not often traveled, and the path on the other side of the basketball court is just distant enough, especially given all of the trees in the area:
Claiming that he raped in plain sight could be easily disproven IMHO.
I don’t understand the argument about the dumpster. If it was rape he would want to avoid being detected. But if it was consensual people usually want privacy when engaging in sex. So in both situations the sex would likely occur in a hard-to-see place.
The first brief was rejected as being overlarge. Brock’s attorney has 15 days to trim it down.
I agree. Fuck that bullshit.
But who would willingly have sex behind a dumpster?
Drunk college kids, I guess?
It seems unlikely to me that a pair of drunk college kids would lie down on the ground behind a dumpster and have sex. Like not completely out of the realm of possibility, but highly unlikely.
On the flip side, I have heard multiple survivor stories of being raped behind a dumpster.
Not that it matters a whit in this case, given he was witnessed by two other people penetrating an unconscious woman.
When you’re 18 or 19, any port in a storm.
I’ll take your word for it… but eww.
California judge in rape case has no regrets.
IMO this guy is trying to hide behind a thick screen of “nothing to see here”:
“Just trust me” is the wrong answer here, Judge: people already don’t trust you.
Oh, and did you catch that mention of an appeal?
Should we start taking bets on how the appeal will turn out? :dubious:
What the fuck would his scholastic success and his swimming career have to do with anything???
Unless he contends that only dumb kids who can’t swim can rape.
AFAICT the argument goes like this: “Rapist has led a great life, with much success and awesomeness, until this unpleasantness. The real tragedy would be to deprive such a powerhouse of a person, smart AND athletically gifted, of the opportunity to fully realize their potential. Rapist is so overwhelmingly, staggeringly amazing that this incident, while regrettable, should be allowed to just remain buried, in the past and inaccessible. C’mon, give him a break yeah fuggedabowtit let’s all just move on amirite.”
You left out “He’s melanin challenged, so he’s not genetically predisposed to being a criminal.”
CMC fnord!
Can you check the quote immediately preceding this comment? I don’t think it is the quote you intended to put there. It is the same quote as the one after this comment.
As far as your point about the judge saying “just trust me,” that’s not what I got out of the article. It sounds like he is saying that he followed guidelines established by the county probation department, and that’s all he is going to say because the issue is on appeal. Not saying anything right now seems a reasonable course to me under the circumstances.
I also agree with him that the integrity of the judiciary is at stake. What he didn’t mention is the accountability of the judiciary to reasonable standards in sentencing. If that sentence followed the guidelines of the county probation department, those guidelines are among things that need to be changed.
Never mind that the probation department has not one fucking thing to do with sentencing other than writing a report about their opinion. Sentencing is specified in the Penal code, not “probation guidelines.” Judges have some discretion in sentencing within preset limits.
And so I will say it here: I think the guy himself was a rapist at one point. I can’t believe that someone could otherwise be this clueless.
Did he do the crime? Yes?
Then he does the time.
All of this other bullshit is completely irrelevant.
Mark my words, this loser will re-offend.