The Baylor - McLennan County Rape Cover-up Collusion Is Still Going Strong

[HG73]

Didn't she have one drink that made her incoherent? Was Cosby there?

 

[TCUdirtbag]

We know the Waco DA is not scared to bring tough assault cases to trial.

Wait, what?

 

[Double V]

I may be naive, but if I’m innocent, no way in hell I am accepting a plea after being charged with this.

If the plea means some probation, a small fine, and the ability to have it completely removed from your criminal record, why risk a trial? He didn't plea to rape/assault.

 

[froginmn]

I find it interesting how some Baylor people say "it happens at every school."

It does, but silly dorks, if I can break Google by searching for Baylor rape, you have more than a casual problem.

 

[GoFrog Yourself]

I may be naive, but if I’m innocent, no way in hell I am accepting a plea after being charged with this.

Sometimes a plea deal is a much safer option than putting your life in the hands of 12 members of the general public

 

[ShadowFrog]

Sometimes a plea deal is a much safer option than putting your life in the hands of 12 members of the general public

Better than 2 hands of a bailure football playah

 

[Pure Purple]

First Baptist Church of Houston Minister Jerrell Altic indicted for the embezzlement of $800,000.

Wonder if he was a Baylor Alum?

 

[Mean Purple]

You mean like Heath?

Actually, many of the people pushing the total void of property rights and open gov in Heath are actually not from Heath. Some moved in from out of state. But your point is well made.

 

[Mean Purple]

Congrats! By getting that in the mail, Baylor will count that toward their application numbers!

... and hang a banner

 

[Mean Purple]

Question for the legal minds:

I have seen some articles jump the judge on this. However, if a plea deal is brought to a judge, isn't it on the DA? Is it normal for a judge to step in and shut down a plea deal? Just seems like the judge is given a bad stack of cards on that.

Also, does the offering of the plea deal mean that the DA may not have had enough to get the convictions otherwise?

Regardless, that guy who did that to that girl is a sorry piece of trash. Hard to see why he is not headed to pen.

 

[HToady]

Perp is enrolled at UT Dallas....apparently 12,000 don't like it.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article222992430.html

Should have tried UT Knoxville instead.

 

[Big Frog II]

Perp is enrolled at UT Dallas....apparently 12,000 don't like it.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article222992430.html

Should have tried UT Knoxville instead.

You mean Liberty University.

 

[Froglaw]

Maybe so, but the way the DA’s Office informed the victim of the plea deal (by email) is disgraceful. Then the ADA doesn’t show up at sentencing and is now “sick” with no one else available in the entire office that can talk about it. It is almost like the DA’s Office doesn’t want to answer any questions pertaining to this plea deal.

Any trial lawyer will tell you that witnesses don't always tell the truth. That means a lawyer has to judge the strength of a case knowing that the pre-trial information they have is flawed.

Therefore, when a deal is in the best interest of the case then the lawyer in charge has to make a call.

 

[Big Frog II]

Perp is enrolled at UT Dallas....apparently 12,000 don't like it.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article222992430.html

Should have tried UT Knoxville instead.

On the news tonight, they said that UTD has kicked the individual out of school.

 

[Frogenstein]

Any trial lawyer will tell you that witnesses don't always tell the truth. That means a lawyer has to judge the strength of a case knowing that the pre-trial information they have is flawed.

Therefore, when a deal is in the best interest of the case then the lawyer in charge has to make a call.

I understand that. My comments had to do with the way the DA’s Office handled the situation.

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

On the news tonight, they said that UTD has kicked the individual out of school.

meh. If I had had a vocal, adamant victim like this I would have tried the case. A DA litererally loses nothing from an NG where the victim insists on trying what appears to be a weak case. If it’s an auto theft with proof problems and you plead it down in the face of victim objection so be it. If it’s a violent personal crime the downside to pleading it down in the face of this kind of opposition far outweighs the value of a chicken illegal restraint deferred

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

On the news tonight, they said that UTD has kicked the individual out of school.

I read somewhere that he was set to graduate later this month. Don’t have any sympathy for him, but getting kicked out with a week to go would be brutal.

 

[QuilterFrawg]

I read somewhere that he was set to graduate later this month. Don’t have any sympathy for him, but getting kicked out with a week to go would be brutal.

Good.

 

[Froglaw]

meh. If I had had a vocal, adamant victim like this I would have tried the case. A DA litererally loses nothing from an NG where the victim insists on trying what appears to be a weak case. If it’s an auto theft with proof problems and you plead it down in the face of victim objection so be it. If it’s a violent personal crime the downside to pleading it down in the face of this kind of opposition far outweighs the value of a chicken sh illegal restraint deferred

So you would have no ethical qualms prosecuting a case knowing that reasonable doubt exists and that an innocent man may go to prison for life?

Really?

 

[frogs9497]

I read somewhere that he was set to graduate later this month. Don’t have any sympathy for him, but getting kicked out with a week to go would be brutal.

The news last night reported that he wouldn’t get to walk across stage. So my impression was that he’ll still graduate.