re: Deputies arrest 4 in LSU student Madison Brooks case

I'm not talking about news sites where a face is usually attached to a name.

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OT or 4chan = anonymous posters and can discount those

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Oh OK.

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Go to Facebook WBRZ and WAFB. People are willing to have their names posted there so that'd be a gauge of their true opinion.

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I've read them. Truly sad is how the comments are 99% divided by race. It's not even about the rape...its a black vs white issue.

There is no way in hell I'd be defending any of the rapists if they were white.

Even more sad, they are so caught up with black victimhood of the rapist that they are victim blaming even in the LP rape case where the victim is black (not sure many of them realize it yet, or if it would even matter)

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We're not even close to any legal situations developing, you're just going to learn that this board is about public opinion on this case, at this moment.

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If you want to dwell on that, be my guest.

I’m interested in real world questions. What is the strength of the case? What are the holes? What could come out that would change it?

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That said, JAMAC2001 has a fair point. He didn’t attribute this attitude to the family post-crime. I thought others had, but I may be mistaken.

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Many others have pointed fingers at the family

People are absolutely blaming the mother because some poster said she was an enabler based on some story he heard when Washington was 12….

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§43. Third degree rape

            A. Third degree rape is a rape committed when the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of a victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances:

            (1) When the victim is incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the act by reason of a stupor or abnormal condition of mind produced by an intoxicating agent or any cause and the offender knew or should have known of the victim's incapacity.

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The investigators did a good job getting the perps to admit how drunk they believed Madison to be. (Slumped over, DRUNK drunk, etc.)

.319 would seem to qualify as 'stupor' level drunk.
But it is a good point that burden to prove it is on prosecutors.

The clinch fact for me is the way she died. If she’s too drunk to stay off Burbank, she’s too drunk to consent.

The Uber driver’s testimony may become important here. Did she run into the street? Fall in front of him?

How incapacitated she was then will bear on the question of how incapacitated she was during sex.

And as the dad of three daughters, if that were my kid and they escaped justice …I’m smart enough to play the long game, sometime over the next 10-15 years each perp would suffer some sort of life ending accident and in the most painful way possible

Abnormal condition of mind produced by intoxicating agent is a slam dunk in this case

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The clinch fact for me is the way she died. If she’s too drunk to stay off Burbank, she’s too drunk to consent.

The Uber driver’s testimony may become important here. Did she run into the street? Fall in front of him?

How incapacitated she was then will bear on the question of how incapacitated she was during sex.

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given the temps and precip that night, even if she hadn't been hit - she probably had about 3 hours before hypothermia would have gotten her if should we have passed out or just been drunk and wandering. being drunk speeds up hypothermia.