Mentally disabled teen gets 100 years for "sex abuse"

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Patranus
http://www.google.com/hostedne...4qrscUG2t-KKgD98O27RG0

He received 2x 5 year terms PLUS 3x 20 year terms.

You fail at math.

It is 3 x 30 year terms (+ 2 x 5 year)

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: Slick5150

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't even need to click on the link to guess it was here in texas. our criminal system absolutely fails when it comes to retards.

Yeah you'd think they'd have some empathy.

Ok, that made me laugh.

Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[Craig234]

I think our crimnal justice system is often out of synch with the facts of the human condition on sexual compulsions and related behaviors.

We often need to be protected from some of the behaviors, but there are a lot better ways for the person who commits the acts and society to deal with the issue IMO.

The same mentality used to criminalize gay sex - and let's recall it was only in 2003 such laws were nullified, not by the public's evolving, but by the Supreme Court.

 

[MovingTarget]

Well, the prosecutors/judges have to be OMGTOUGHONCRIME to get reelected. Justice is not only blind, but dumb.

 

[theeedude]

Hopefully he lives a long life as a drain on the idiot Texas taxpayers.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Slick5150

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't even need to click on the link to guess it was here in texas. our criminal system absolutely fails when it comes to retards.

Yeah you'd think they'd have some empathy.

Ok, that made me laugh.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Can anyone explain it to me?

 

[racolvin]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Slick5150

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't even need to click on the link to guess it was here in texas. our criminal system absolutely fails when it comes to retards.

Yeah you'd think they'd have some empathy.

Ok, that made me laugh.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Can anyone explain it to me?

empathy [(em-puh-thee)]

Identifying oneself completely with an object or person

If the Justice system in Texas were to feel empathy to a mentally disabled boy, that would imply that it was mentally disabled as well, no?

 

[CitizenKain]

Originally posted by: Patranus
I don't want a violent person running around society, ESPECIALLY someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. Someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong is significantly MORE dangerous to society.

Empathy has no place in the court room. The law is the law. Just because someone has a "special circumstance" doesn't mean they should get special treatment. EVERYONE has their own "special circumstance".

Do you practice at being wrong all the time?

Considering it was in Texas, he's lucky he didn't get the chair. The bloodthirsty idiots who run the state seem to have some sort of pleasure executing mentally handicapped people.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: chess9
Texas still uses the McNaughton Rule:

"The "McNaughton rule" was a standard to be applied by the jury, after hearing medical testimony from prosecution and defense experts. The rule created a presumption of sanity, unless the defense proved "at the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong."

I'm assuming the defense put on evidence of mental defect and the jury didn't buy it. This suggests that juries in Texas are probably not sympathetic to this sort of defense. Does that surprise anyone here?


-Robert

The Defense pled GUILTY to five felony counts. The defense attorney was incompetent. You don't have a client plead guilty to five felony counts unless you have a deal setup with the prosecution, more so if your client is retarded/mentally incapacitated. The defense should have NEVER of pled guilty to five counts in court leaving it up to a jury to decide the clients fate.

It appears the prosecution shot gunned with charging him NEVER expecting the defense to plead guilty to all five counts. Again, that defense attorney needs to be reprimanded or disbarred for gross incompetence/gross negligence.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: CitizenKain

Originally posted by: Patranus
I don't want a violent person running around society, ESPECIALLY someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. Someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong is significantly MORE dangerous to society.

Empathy has no place in the court room. The law is the law. Just because someone has a "special circumstance" doesn't mean they should get special treatment. EVERYONE has their own "special circumstance".

Do you practice at being wrong all the time?

Considering it was in Texas, he's lucky he didn't get the chair. The bloodthirsty idiots who run the state seem to have some sort of pleasure executing mentally handicapped people.

The Supreme Court banned the execution of mentally retarded people. Oddly enough, there are other states besides Texas trying to argue what mentally retarded is.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Wreckem

The Defense pled GUILTY to five felony counts. The defense attorney was incompetent. You don't have a client plead guilty to five felony counts unless you have a deal setup with the prosecution, more so if your client is retarded/mentally incapacitated. The defense should have NEVER of pled guilty to five counts in court leaving it up to a jury to decide the clients fate.

This. He sounds almost as bad as my Public Pretender attorney on my DUI.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Slick5150

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't even need to click on the link to guess it was here in texas. our criminal system absolutely fails when it comes to retards.

Yeah you'd think they'd have some empathy.

Ok, that made me laugh.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Everyone got it but the red-faced poster with "anus" in his user name. Go figure.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Texas....talk about an ass backwards state.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Patranus
I don't want a violent person running around society, ESPECIALLY someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. Someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong is significantly MORE dangerous to society.

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't even need to click on the link to guess it was here in texas. our criminal system absolutely fails when it comes to retards.

Yeah you'd think they'd have some empathy.

Empathy has no place in the court room. The law is the law. Just because someone has a "special circumstance" doesn't mean they should get special treatment. EVERYONE has their own "special circumstance".

winnar?

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: Wreckem

The Defense pled GUILTY to five felony counts. The defense attorney was incompetent. You don't have a client plead guilty to five felony counts unless you have a deal setup with the prosecution, more so if your client is retarded/mentally incapacitated. The defense should have NEVER of pled guilty to five counts in court leaving it up to a jury to decide the clients fate.

This. He sounds almost as bad as my Public Pretender attorney on my DUI.

What, a Republican that is too broke to afford an attorney? Color me shocked.