Via Shakesville, go read.
The cousin’s victim impact statement, reproduced in the comments, is particularly heartbreaking. I’m not generally a big fan of victim impact statements, but then I have always assumed killing a woman by drugging her so that the defendant could rape her and reach his goal of sleeping with (read: raping) 100 women didn’t require a victim impact statement for people (read: the court, the government and society) to understand what a horrible, little psychopath the defendant is. Clearly I was wrong.
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if this was freeperville you can guess what the comments might sound like. I wonder if GOS passes the same bar now. What is really sad is that I would now expect that kind of Hillary comment on so-called progressive blogs today. Thanks kos for changing the landscape.
The price of her funeral?
and the judge who let this ’plea bargain’ go by was a woman.
some days, you know that in spite of how far we’ve come, we still have a long way to go, baby.
One thing I've noticed, Sarah
as I’ve started paying more attention to this, is that some of the worst judicial decisions made about the traumas women suffer, are made by women.
We always act so shocked when it happens, but it’s true. Many feminist lawyers I read talk about the disgusting attitudes men in law schools all over the country have (even at the Harvard Law Review, and I can’t help but wonder if many women don’t assimilate this BS(Resistance Is Futile), by going along to get along.
Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!
I Wonder Why It Was a Federal Case
After re-reading the article, I realized it was a federal case. Murder is usually a state charge, but they talk about him being sentenced by a U.S. district court judge. I wonder if what he pled out to was some drug charge, which would lessen the possible sentence. If I had more time, I’d try to figure it out. Because something isn’t quite right beyond the awful leniency of the sentence.