re: Driver in Madison Brooks case waives jury trial

I hope they all get the maximum sentence. What these scumbags did is inexcusable . A bunch of young punks had their way with a young intoxicated girl..makes me sick.

What a circus. Feel for this family.

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Smart move by his lawyer. The judge’s son is serial rapist and she got in trouble last year for letting a rapist free.

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This is why the true thing that AI needs to replace is the lawyers and judges.

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Waive: “Defense friendly” judge; if the matter seems to hinge upon a technical point of law, as opposed to a battle of attorneys framing the facts one way or the other.

Not waive: the trial is taking place in a non-conservative jurisdiction where the chances of landing a “defense friendly” jury is a strong possibility or likelihood.

There are many other nuanced reasons for one or the other as well. The above is a broad explanation based on my experience and opinion and observations.

Truly it can be boiled down pretty simply.

Pro for jury trials: you only have to convince one person out of 12.

So from there, you need to have a really good reason why it’s easier to convince one judge than to convince 1/12 barely literate EBR registered voters.

Potential reasons are:
-Publicity
-Emotion
-Complex legal issues
-Bad client, bad appearance, demeanor, unlikable
-You’re a black guy with face tats in a suburban parish
-you’re a white guy accused of a racially involved crime in an urban parish


So you have to have a good reason why. For Carver it’s simple. He was alleged to have been sitting in a car and/or driving during a rape in the back seat. I don’t do criminal law enough to know if that’s a crime but it definitely sounds like a terrible thing to do. So I get why he wants a purely legal view, because no matter what, it’s a terrible thing to do morally.

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According to court documents, the victim told East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s deputies that she was cleaning a room when Taylor approached her. Initially thinking he was looking for towels, she left her cleaning cart, only to return and find him masturbating

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This strategy only works in the Dirty Latina Maids videos.

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they don’t want an emotional jury that just wants to make sure someone gets punished.

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And the demographics of EBR

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Yep. There are likely going to be a lot of unflattering things come out about the deceased. I couldn't imagine, as a parent, having to listen to that about my dead child. From a defense strategy standpoint it probably makes sense to try it to the judge. The alleged facts are ugly. Attractive young female allegedly raped and left alone where she was ultimately killed. All trials such as these are emotional. But it's easier to play on the emotion of 12 members of the community vs a judge who has to hear about bad things every day.

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Haven’t they ruled that her sexual history isn’t relevant?

At the end of the day whether she “wanted it” or not. She was an intoxicated female who cannot consent and they left her basically to die on the road.

These boys are fricked.

Gail Horne Ray will surely be taken off this case.

She’s already ruled that some evidence can be used in the trial only for an appellate court to rule that it can’t. So she’s already seen evidence that can’t be used but will surely influence her judgement.