Doesn't let the rapist, Drew Clinton, get tried again though, due to US Constitution protection against double jeopardy.
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Wow, this is so much like the Brock Allan Turner case. Straight to victim-blaming and dismissing the damage caused by the perpetrator. "It's not his fault. The parents didn't stop them from swimming in a pool together."
Imagine the conservative outrage if this judge was not one of their own. But sadly, this is just an average day for a Christian conservative.
Is circumventing the law a crime? (Legalese, etc.) If so, can we now put this judge on trial
As fucked as this all is, we want to be extraordinarily careful charging judges with crimes. That's the kind of downhill spiral that will break the system. Best to impeach them, if possible in the jurisdiction.
No.
They are only special while in the courtroom. If they are committing crimes, they should not get a free pass just because they hold office. They are not royalty.
I have a huge issue with judges. They can put people in jail for almost no reason while in their magical room.
They can let murders out on bail, against prosecutors request and not be held liable for the second murder they commit on bail.
Yes, you can appeal verdicts, but that's a long and expensive process. Judges have an extraordinary amount of power that I think should be split amongst multiple. Similar to jury.
I think he's saying it shouldn't just be one judge presiding over regular cases.
Indeed. But it took something insanely egregious. I'm curious what other crap he's pulled.
I've been around judges enough to have seen or heard plenty of BS from court officers, staff, and cops to form my very shitty opinion of their barely checked power.
Their only checks/balances are other judges/country club drinking buddies.
Pretty sure he’ll be a Fox commentator by morning
IDK, fox viewers want pretty much anyone accused of rape lined up before a wall and shot. They might not be too comfortable with the rapist-enabler, Roger Adrian.
Trump is a rapist. Not even just an accused rapist. An actual rapist.
Not if they can convince people that his conviction is some kind of liberal plot to silence him.
All of those youth pastors and policemen that keep going to jail for sex crimes against children doesn't seem to put a dent in the Fox News fawning over those demographics.
You’ve got to be kidding Conservatives love rape. Why else would they elect a rapist president? Or force women to give birth to rape babies? Or blame women for being raped? Or adjudicate rapists?
Not sure why you think that’s true but I think they’d be more likely to blame the woman for “causing a good Christian man to stumble!”
Clinton cannot be tried again for the same crime under the Fifth Amendment.
Uhhh... shouldn't it be a mistrial now? Maybe they npw have to motion or whatever to get it classified as such before they can try him again.
Seems like the system is broken if they can't get it classified as a mistrial considering the dude literally got removed from the bench... >_>;
Here's hoping.
Disrobed!
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