I'm not saying otherwise. (There are women over here who are married to convicted murderers...and got married as the result of being pen-pals after the killers were convicted, for goodness sakes)
But that piece, combined with the other pieces (I mean, shoot, the priest involved with the case...who gave a character witness and then shook the dude's hand after he was sentenced (at the cost of his job, btw) was personally vouched for by a fellow Catholic FReeper, for goodness sakes) means that there are some discrepancies that don't add up for me.
I'm not saying that Danny Boy was innocent...I'm just saying that, based upon everything I've read up on the case, I'm not 150% certain that it's exactly the way the prosecution said it was.
Sorry, but a priest as a character witness means as much as anyone else... close to zippo, when we know what he’s admiited to. My own former pastor thinks Ted Kennedy was a living saint. Tell me, Father, did you know Danny Boy had it in him to go pick up a stranger at a bar two nights after proposing to his fiance, carry that woman out to sludge pit and f*** her in the filth? It’s situations like this that the f-word was created for, and that gave the word in old times such a crass, nasty connotation. ‘Cause we’re not talking a broken, unfulfilled heart making love to the wrong woman; we’re talking, at best, a literally filthy, dirty f***, in the crassest sense of that very crass word. Do ya think his conduct in the courtroom was very becoming of a decent man? If so, you’re a reprobate, yourself. If not, your testimony is worthless.
And, as for the Freeper, what does “vouched” mean? Who are you referring to? A witness, or just another character witness?