Posted on 01/04/2008 4:53:57 PM PST by #1CTYankee
A former Greenwood teacher filed a “humongous” brief Thursday appealing her September 2006 conviction on sexual-assault charges, according to her attorney.
Deanna Bobo, 39, was sentenced to two consecutive six-year prison terms, one for each of two counts of first-degree sexual assault, after a weeklong jury trial. She was accused of having sex with a minor male student on two occasions while she was a teacher at Raymond G. Wells Junior High School in 2005.
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Origin, Tagalog (Philippine’s national language) meaning, STUPID or DUMB. He’s such a “bobo” person!; or, “Bobo!” - translation, “Stupid!” ...(from the Urban Dictionary)
Still, she's not necessarily a total pooch considering that this IS a mugshot and she's 39.
With the right lights (or a paperbag) just about anyone looks good. ;-D
-Heard from an old Marine.
The full story is worth reading. Charges were dropped by another minor who decided he wanted to serve his country (enlist) more than go to court. No BoBo he.
National Geographic was open to ridicule.
I thought one feature of law was that certain classes of offenses are so serious that they will be prosecuted regardless of the victims wishes.
Certainly not a legal expert here, but if the accuser (here the young man who enlisted and is abroad in military service) does not testify, then the constitutional right to confront one’s accuser is denied. So that trial didn’t go forward for that reason, I suspect.
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