They’re not really, but in this case, eyewitnesses came upon him raping an unconscious victim. You can argue about what really constitutes consent, morning after regrets, and no means no, and all of that, but in this case, you have eyewitness testimony to an unconscious victim being violated behind a dumpster. And the father pleads to the judge not to ruin his son’s life because of “20 minutes of action”. And the kid will do 90 days — there are thousands maybe millions who have done 90 days over misdemeanor traffic violations. Something’s very wrong about that, IMHO.
The media was running with this one long before the crazy sentence was handed down though.