OT - Former USC Player, Ex-Con Exonerated

[Frank Ivy]

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/ncf/...sc-trojans-recruit-exonerated-rape-conviction


This is how your justice system works.
A woman who has a sexual interaction with you is angry that you didn't respond/follow up/call her.
You are charged with kidnap and rape.
Your attorney advises you to take a plea bargain. You plead no contest and do 6 years hard time.

Why?

Here's why. Here's how your justice system works. Let me know if you think it's a good system.

For every 100 guys who are accused of the crime this guy did, every one gets a plea offer.
98 guys take it.
2 don't.

The 98 who take it do 6 years, zero risk.
What happens to the 2 who don't take it?
1 gets acquitted and walks. 1 gets convicted and sent to prison for 41 years.

So why did the guy take the plea? Because the 50/50 risk of going to jail until you're an old man is a monumental risk that most won't take when the alternative is a relatively short 6 years in the slammer.

The point of my post is this - the 98 guys who take the plea and do 6 years represent what "justice" thinks you should do for jail time for committing the crime charged. It's a scam. Clearly, we, as a society, are OK with the rape/kidnapping being pleaded out to a 6 year jail sentence, or they would force DAs to change the way they do business for 98 of the guys who take the plea.

So what about the 41 year sentence? Well, that's the giant stick they hold over your head to threaten you into taking the plea. You see, if it was 6 years if you take the plea, but 8 or 10 if you don't, then nobody would take the plea - especially the innocent ones. So the way the law works is that the punishment if convicted is almost 7 times more severe than the plea, if accepted, and that way, even the innocent ones take the plea, because being right, and innocent, while doing 30 to life up the river is a moral victory most don't want.

It's a scam and it's immoral.

Soap box moralizing over.

This woman admits that she lied and put this guy in prison for 6 years and got 1.5 million for her story. She should be put in jail for the rest of her life, no chance of parole, for what she did. If I was the guy, I'm not sure I could stop myself from ------- her.

 

[ZenConn]

This part bothered me the most:

"In an initial meeting with him, she said she had lied; there had been no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record, court records state. But she refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against Long Beach schools."

WTF?

 

[Kitaman]

This part bothered me the most:

"In an initial meeting with him, she said she had lied; there had been no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record, court records state. But she refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against Long Beach schools."

WTF?

And "It was uncertain Thursday whether Gibson will have to return the money."

I know its early but she should give all of that money and more to the student, then do some jail time. Sad the kid's life is ruined. I suspect this stuff happens a lot.

 

[babysheep]

Chicks, man. They got too much social power too quickly and now so many don't know how to use that power (not that men ever have) without abusing it.

And they wonder why so many people don't want to be married these days, because there are SO many stories about there describing the completely insane and inhumane things women do to men.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

And they wonder why so many people don't want to be married these days, because there are SO many stories about there describing the completely insane and inhumane things women do to men.

Thank god the reverse is not - and never has been - true.

 

[nomar]

A lot of ridiculous things being said in this thread.

False accusations of any sort are terrible.

 

[champs99and04]

Babysheep lost me with his whole, "This is why some people don't get married!" rant.

 

[babysheep]

Babysheep lost me with his whole, "This is why some people don't get married!" rant.

Rants can be a sentence long?

 

[tykurez]

If stealing your lady with cold hard looks was a crime, Jeremy Lamb would be serving life without parole.

 

[Sportsman5]

Babysheep lost me with his whole, "This is why some people don't get married!" rant.

Women can claim a lot of things to ruin a man's reputation in his community. It seems that people take the side of a women more often than not especially when it comes to physical abuse. Women have been known to control a relationship. The saying "a happy wife makes a happy life" can be true. I think marriage makes for a much more drawn out, potentially explosive, and potentially more emotionally draining breakup than just parting ways with a girlfriend. The bottom line is that anyone falsely accusing someone of doing something and watching them go to jail for it is sickening.