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Ha!!! A portion of the transcript from closing arguments in the case I just finished a couple of weeks ago. This really cracks me up! I must have been delirious!
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JUDGE: Counsel, you have ten minutes left for rebuttal.
MS. COMPTON: Thank you, Your Honor. May it please the Court, Counsel. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, in order to acquit this defendant you are going to have to believe one of two things. You are going to have to believe that every single one of these boys that testified is a liar, or you are going to have to believe that the man sitting at that table is the unluckiest person in the world. Really. I mean, have you ever heard of anyone with worse luck than this man? No matter where he goes, no matter what he does, no matter who he's with, he somehow always manages to wind up with a young boy's penis in his hand! And on a bad day, on a really bad day, in his mouth!. . . .
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That should lift a few eyebrows at the Court of Appeals.
JUDGE: Counsel, you have ten minutes left for rebuttal.
MS. COMPTON: Thank you, Your Honor. May it please the Court, Counsel. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, in order to acquit this defendant you are going to have to believe one of two things. You are going to have to believe that every single one of these boys that testified is a liar, or you are going to have to believe that the man sitting at that table is the unluckiest person in the world. Really. I mean, have you ever heard of anyone with worse luck than this man? No matter where he goes, no matter what he does, no matter who he's with, he somehow always manages to wind up with a young boy's penis in his hand! And on a bad day, on a really bad day, in his mouth!. . . .
That should lift a few eyebrows at the Court of Appeals.
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Oh My FuckingGoodness!
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It's a well known fact:
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I second that.........."Oh my fucking goodness!"
You're my hero! :)
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That was a great speech. Couldn't have been written better in fiction.
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Re-buttal?
(Don't mind me. I'm feverish.)
~ E.
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erm, sorry if that was in bad taste but i'm trying to imagine someone with a sincere reason to appeal could possibly have going on upstairs to generate such an intense denial.
i've seen in one of those friends-of-a-friends you find out too late has some wierd obsession for being the right kind of man to initiate a young woman and they're asking your advice (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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oh man there was a little cultlike church of them up where i lived and i got brainwashed by one of their scary movies about rock and roll causing you to die of drug overdoses before you're saved.. my friend hated these rallies her parents made her go to and dragged me along... thank the lawd i was distractable, but it shore left me feelin wierd about god and sin and stuff i didnt have much exposure to till then.
glad you nailed that asshole. i've heard some scary stories about child molesters being singled out in prison, any insight into it? is it simply they know there's this line with no slack in it, and child molesters cross it and become a sort of paraiah among the population? or so they just creep everybody out in prison as much as they do outside?
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The guy's probably in denial. I just started reading one of the books in this list:
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/pbanning/Index.htm and it gives a bit of insight into what's going on upstairs for these people. What an eye opener!
Why am I reading it? To understand someone I care about.
A very close friend of mine was hideously molested as a child--longterm. She didn't get out of it until she was old enough to get out of the house. While living at home, she in turn molested her younger brother. Living in that kind of situation makes you think there are two ways to live: victim or abuser. She didn't want to be the victim.
So my friend is a child molester. I don't think it's necessarily true that everyone who commits abuse, even sexual abuse, is completely irredeemable. I think my friend has made it out of her hell rather well. She can never forget what she did, but there are ways to get past it without dying or being buried.
I sincerely hope that guy can confront what he did and learn to deal with it and with the desires he has. I hope he gets some intensive therapy and can honestly see that he has hurt people, and that he must do anything he can to avoid doing it again.
Because sooner or later, unless he is knifed in jail, he *is* going to come out.
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You make a good point, though. There is a huge difference between victims who become abusers and those few who simply decide that they enjoy having sex with children. This guy is not in denial; he's a sociopathic offender. That's a horse of an entirely different color. Although there are some people who can learn to control their compulsions and not reoffend (like the friend you mention), they are--unfortunately--the exception, rather than the rule.
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i mean, i gotta feel bad for the victims. the guy in question has probably screwed them up badly.
but what phrasing, my dear, what timing! brava!
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Oh the wit! Oh the style!
And on behalf of everyone who has suffered at the hands of such bastards, thank you. And more power to you.
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you really said that?
Hurrah for Cate! Not only are you amazing, you have great style!
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What a fabulous rebuttal. You're my new hero. Hope you don't mind me adding you...
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Straight out of a movie
You... are a rock-star!
You are my hero... that is the level of profoundness I strive to be able to achieve when addressing something or someone as official as the justice system....
*bows at your feet*
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you rock.
i only wish i could have seen the jury members faces when you delivered that one.
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