TN football player wants rape case dismissed because unconscious victim was ‘promiscuous’
Source: Raw Story
TN football player wants rape case dismissed because unconscious victim was promiscuous
By David Edwards
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 14:24 EDT
Court documents submitted by one of four Vanderbilt football players accused of raping an unconscious 21-year-old female student painted her as promiscuous and a drinker.
Last year, 19-year-old Corey Batey, 20-year-old Brandon Vandenburg, 19-year-old Brandon Banks and 19-year-old Jaborian McKenzie were kicked off the Vanderbilt football team after they were arrested on five counts of rape, and two counts of sexual battery.
Vandenburg, whose dorm room was the alleged scene of the crime, was also charged with tampering with evidence and unlawful photography.
On Monday, his lawyers submitted a 128-page motion in an effort to convince a judge that the case should be dismissed. According to WKRN, the filing included interviews with witnesses that described the victim as a promiscuous and heavy drinker who had a history of dating football players, even working with (Coach James Franklin) to recruit football players.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/24/tn-football-player-wants-rape-case-dismissed-because-unconscious-victim-was-promiscuous/
msongs
(67,128 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)Does this cretin actually BELIEVE that his allegations justify his actions?!?!
I hope these four boys will have real consequences for their criminal acts!!!
shenmue
(38,497 posts)What is this shit?!
LittleGirl
(8,247 posts)She was unconscious? WTF?
QuestForSense
(653 posts)And he still is.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)-- I would have the right to help myself to the contents of his wallet. Same principle, isn't it?
By the way, aren't the football players (in this case) promiscuous drinkers themselves? "What's sauce for the
goose . . ."
rocktivity
(44,546 posts)DISGUISED as drunk businessmen!
rocktivity
Skittles
(152,918 posts)that's close to necrophilia in my book
Squinch
(50,666 posts)we don't know.
aggiesal
(8,849 posts)that seems reasonable.
7962
(11,841 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)with consequences
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Of a college athlete?
At an SEC school?
Well, I guess there's a first time for everything...
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Omaha Steve
(98,872 posts)It's RAPE!
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)"Do they have rape shield laws in Tennessee? If so, it appears counsel may be using a court filing to try their case in the press."
Makes sense. If they can not bring it up at trial, they would do so now in an attempt to poison the jury pool.
shrewd
rocktivity
(44,546 posts)I prefer the more civilized term "pre-trial jury tampering."
By the way, do the players claim that she WASN'T unconscious? Their insisting that she's a promiscuous heavy drinker could end up having the OPPOSITE effect, LOL!
rocktivity
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)Surely you can't be serious.
Hekate
(89,974 posts)ECHOFIELDS
(25 posts)Twas it
Unconscious Promiscuity or
Promiscuous Unconsciousness
That is the question
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Last week everyone was defending HRC because she defended a child molester in the 70s.
They both are doing a distasteful job required by the Constitution.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)drink a lot deserve to get raped.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)counsel to put his client ahead of his own humanity. A lawyer can contest the evidence of rape without claiming that some women deserve to get raped.
There are defense lawyers to whom no act is evil so long as they're doing it on behalf of a client. They're generally the ones who work for the mafia or who in a past life ran concentration camps.
get the red out
(13,456 posts)If you can get your buddies to try to defame the character of a woman who you RAPED?
If he's trying to poison the jury pool, I hope this works the opposite of the way he hopes. Anyone willing to rape an unconscious woman then try to defame her deserves even more jail time.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Given that this came from the counsel for the defence and given that the prosecution
have already stated that the victim was unconscious at the time of the attack, surely
that agreement means that the only point of any trial is to determine how many years
the openly agreed guilty man should get as there is no dissent over the crucial fact
that the victim was not consenting?
Seriously?
sofa king
(10,857 posts)... showing where "promiscuous" overlaps with, "unconscious."
Please, defense team, show me that.