Madison, meanwhile, compared it to the longstanding tradition of young people laughing at friends who drink too much.
"She became the butt end of the joke because she was the drunkest," he argued.
It was a potentially fair bit of perspective until prosecutor Hemmeter quickly jumped to a one-question redirect of Pizzoferrato, pouncing on the chance to blow up the "she-wasn't-all-that-drunk-after-all" defense strategy.
"Mr. Madison asserted you always make fun of the drunkest person in the room," Hemmeter said. "Was [the girl] the drunkest person in the room?"
"Yes," Pizzoferrato said.
"No more questions, your honor," Hemmeter concluded.
Why are they being tried as juveniles? It is ridiculous!
Reading the sports section these days is almost like reading the FBI most wanted list in the post office.
Juveniles? They can’t hurt the football team with this kind of thing, can they? Spring practice starts in a few weeks. These upstanding young men have to ready themselves for spring practice! /s
Where were the parents?
Who lets their kids go to these kin ds of parties?
I tried for so long to try to avoid hearing/reading anything about this. On Wednesday, it became inescapable to me. I saw a video, in a news story, of this jackass Michael Nodianos, referencing her as the dead girl: “Dude, she is so dead, she’s deader than OJ’s wife. She’s deader than Caylee Anthony.” He laughs and so does the jerk filming him. In that same video, he says that the victim is more raped than the Duke Lacrosse girl.
My heart goes out to Colin Finnerty, Dave Evans and Reid Seligmann all over again. They didn’t rape anybody, and Seligmann wasn’t even on the premises. But he was nifonged by a rogue prosecutor, and here, these jerks are only going to get 3-4 years. There were so many of them, and not a decent one in the bunch except for Sean McGhee, who wasn’t even in the bunch, per se.
Sickening! I don’t rightly know what I would do if Trent Mays were my son. Dumb, vile and ignorant as he is, would it be worth it to me to put my money up to buy him a defense? I think I would just let the chips fall where they may and make his way with a defense attorney that he himself could pay for. I want to believe that I would wash my hands of him.
Stunning, just stunning...
Dare I link the coarsening of our kids to stuff they see on TV and in the movies, sports figures who are idolized by many and have no manners in public, or even a President of the United States who messed around with an intern, was defended by saying it’s only his sex life, even by his own wife???
But we’re told we need to have more “liberty” in our social life...yeah.
Goes all the way up to the NFL!!!!
“closely watched joint trials”
hmmm....more serious that first reported.
Been following closely since early in the year. Looks like the defendants are in serious trouble in the trial.
while Mays tried to force her to perform oral sex.
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That in itself shows the kid has no idea of what is going on.
If he succeeded in getting oral sex from a passed out person, he may have gotten a surprise he could remember the rest of his life.....which would be a GOOD thing.
Think pit bull if jaw ‘locks’ on target.
As an aside, I keep reading about how today's teens are so tech savvy. It also seems they are idiots, because they think they are supposed to distribute the evidence of their crimes to as many people as possible. Rob a house? Let's make a YouTube video of the loot! Molest a girl? Let's text the evidence to all our buddies! Morons.
Sounds more like this case was being stonewalled because of Black Ku Klux Klan style racism and White Guilt Liberal enablers..... more than this “football mad community” spin