Here’s the letter. It’s still stupid bullshit. It’s not quite as horrible as her initial letter, but it’s still pretty fucking bad.
So you think that, in a written letter he was going to submit to the judge who was going to decide whether or not his son went to prison for half as long as he’d been on the planet already, Dan Turner somehow accidentally “misspoke” such that he forgot to include the possessive pronoun “my son’s” and he somehow “misspoke” and wrote “action”, singular, when he really meant “actions”, plural?
And he didn’t notice the error and correct it before he submitted this plea for his son’s freedom?
You’re saying that you think that his father, who hired a top defense attorney because he cared so much for his son’s freedom, somehow submitted a letter to the judge that was not heavily discussed and reviewed before it’s submittal?
And you think he did this inadvertently, even tho the entire defense rested on the claim that this was consensual (“just getting’ some action”) and not a rape?
Have I accurately described what you think?
Sometimes, trial by ordeal and trial by combat seem like they should be on the books again. This is one of those times. Let the kid fight Brock Lesnar to the death, and may the gods decide.
Not the best idiom to use in a rape case 
I don’t give rape supporters the benefit of the doubt in their wording, especially when that wording fits with the ideals that rape supporters hold.
More importantly, it only takes a second to pull a trigger and take a life. The duration of time taken to commit a crime is NOT a mitigating factor.
20 mins or 20 hrs, it’s still a rape of an unconscious woman. Just like pulling a trigger and taking a life, you don’t get a pass me because it was only ‘a few seconds of’ crime.
I’m still struggling to see how a defendant who doesn’t admit to the specifics of the crime, or express remorse, AND insists on putting the victim/state through a trial deserves any leniency whatsoever.
That makes one of you.
But what other “20 minutes of action” could he possibly be referring to that would ruin Fuckstain Jr’s life, especially since it was said as part of “now he has to register as a sex offender and that’ll follow him around all his life”? (And boo fucking hoo to that. Don’t want to be a registered sex offender? Don’t commit sex crimes.)
Calling “the rape of an unconscious woman” “20 minutes of action” even in the sense of “activity that took 20 minutes” was an attempt to minimize the significance of his crime, and to minimize the harm done to the victim. And that’s why so many people have their undies in a bunch over that choice of words.
I am not normally a violent person, but I would like to take baseball bat upside the heads of the rapist and his father. Repeatedly. Disbar the judge and have him sit in with mental health professionals who counsel rape victims.
The sentencing really makes me wonder what shitty things the judge has done in his lifetime. That would make better sense of his bizarre sentencing. If he’s been in similar situations with women, he would identify closer with the rapist. Or maybe he just has a misogynistic world view. Since he won’t consider himself a monster, he doesn’t see how terrible rape boy is.
Along with the six month jail (not prison) time, he got three years probation and, more importantly, sex-offender registry for life, which is no small thing. He’s most likely appealing the verdict in hopes of getting out of being on the sex offender registry.
I had the exact same thought.
How else could he show such apparent empathy for someone who has committed such a blatantly horrible crime?
Maybe he should be given an option then. Register as a sex offender for the rest of his life or get RAPIST tattooed in block letters on his forehead. His choice.
No, I think far too many adults can’t write their way out of a grocery list.
I concede (and conceded) it makes absolutely no difference - but raging over a clumsy phrase on top of rage over far more important things adds nothing to the dialogue.
I disagree, this man’s letter and especially his choice of words to defend his son, have added considerably to the conversation.
He may not be able to write well, you may be right. But there is no way it wasn’t vetted by the high priced lawyers, in my opinion.
Your posts tell us everything we need to know about you. None of it is good.
Sadly, not only can I see President Trump nominating this judge to the Supreme Court, I can see a Republican Senate giving him high-fives and chest-bumps.
Or he could just be honest about it: “He is truly sorry that he got caught.”
The kid clearly knew he was in the wrong. The two swedes had to chase him down and tackle him.
So what you’re saying is, he got stepped on by two Swede dudes ?