3 months for Rape

[Benton]

(06-07-2016, 04:20 PM)Beaker Wrote: I am not debating that the guy was wrong. But do you think the rape would have occurred if she had been totally sober and had all her wits about her? Or at least, would it have been as likely? I don't know many people that are not aware that bad things can happen to you if you don't control your urges to drink and get blackout drunk.

To the bold, I don't like 'what ifs' in criminal cases. I don't know what was said between the two prior to the rape, during or after. The problem with this is we don't know if a woman (any, not just specifically this case, but I think it applies here too) didn't consent and blocked the event out (as many assault victims do, sexual or otherwise). We don't know if a person consented only out of fear of violence. We don't know if anyone helped along the drinking (alcohol is alcohol, but if you drop a shot or two of liquor into a beer before handing it off, the other person gets drunk way faster... no date rape drugs needed).

So all you've got is two people and enough evidence that a jury said one consented and one didn't.