An update to the story about Jeffrey L. Hazlett from yesterday.
A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for 2 hours Wednesday afternoon before returning not guilty verdicts on charges of rape.
It was a bittersweet victory for Mr. Hazlett: "My life has been ruined over this, over a lie," he said. Nobody, he said, is going to apologize to him, not the police nor the woman. "Nobody is going to held accountable for ruining my life," he said outside the courtroom. He said he has been unable to leave his home since the rape charges were filed. "I've been in 'prison' for the past 10 months," he said, referring to his life behind the walls of his home. In the process, he said he lost his job as a behavorial therapist, and faced threats and attacks. He will have to leave the Altoona area in order to get his life back, he said.
Blair County Assistant District Attorney Deanne Paul, who prosecuted the case, said she now is worried about the next rape victim "hesitating to come forward when we get verdicts like this."
The answer, of course, is not to try men and boys for rape unless you are sure they did it. Stop rolling the dice, hoping to "get lucky" with a male's life.
"It sends the wrong message," said now-retired Altoona police Detective John Polheber, who was the lead investigator in the case.
No, Detective Polheber. You send the wrong message. With your bitter, sour grapes comment after "your side" lost (and, gee, I though Mr. Hazlett was on your side, too, detective. Go figure).
You all wonder why the conviction rate for rape is so "low"? Read about this case and ask yourself how it was ever brought to trial.
But don't worry. The sexual grievance industry includes cases like this in its tally of actual rapes -- because it wasn't proved to be a false claim.
Link: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/547795/Jury-acquits-landlord-of-rape--other-charges.html
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These fuckers are all the same.
Exact same thing in my rape accusation and subsequent family court case, which was what the rape accusation was really all about.
The fucking lot of them are mainly concerned about their own self image and "authoritah".... and of course are totally fucking clueless, incompetent, ignorant bastards.
They do not even HEAR a man saying "I am innocent", they hear it as a lack of respect for their divine judgement.
So well said on calling them on their bullshit.
Blair County Assistant District Attorney Deanne Paul, who prosecuted the case, said, she now is worried about the next rape victim "hesitating to come forward when we get verdicts like this."
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That's why you don't bring garbage cases to trial, bird-brain.
Don't you love the way a nifong "thinks"?
Taxpayers get hurt by crap like this too. Each one of these cases goes up to six figures in expenses at minimum.
This worthless bum should be disbarred.How dare a prosecutor say that a man was guilty after he has been acquitted.They don't give a damn about the truth,all they want is a conviction.
That reminds me of the prosecutor that distributed child pornography:
Sentencing Law & Policy sees "Prosecutors gone wild" and points to this AP article:
David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party. McDade is no porno kingpin, but a district attorney. And he says Georgia's open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state's most turbulent cases — that of Genarlow Wilson, a young man serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers. McDade's actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars — and worse, distributing child pornography. sexcrimes.typepad.com/sex_crimes/2007/07/wilson-updates.html
As everybody knows,
The saddest part of all this, of course, is that McDade continues to wreck havoc on Georgia justice while Genarlow Wilson remains behind bars. It is a sad shame that Georgia's Attorney General and Governor are far less concerned about the unjustifiable activities of rogue prosecutors than about teenagers' consensual sexual activities. sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2007/07/prosecutors-gon.html
Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, who prosecuted the case against Wilson, has been there every step of the way to ensure not only that Wilson went to jail, but that he stayed there. When the state legislature considered bills last year and this year that would have amended the statute again to make it apply retroactively to Wilson’s case, McDade was there lobbying against the bills.
And evidently, as part of his efforts, McDade has made available to legislators and seemingly anyone else who wanted one copies of the videtape of the sexual encounter that got Wilson convicted. Many in Georgia have begun to question why McDade has been so free with the distribution of the tape, particularly since the distribution, receipt, and possession of it appears to violate Georgia and federal law. abovethelaw.com/2007/07/sex-laws-and-videotape-is-david-mcdade-the-new-michael-nifong/
"The videotape at issue constitutes child pornography under federal law and should not be knowingly distributed, received, or possessed outside of law enforcement and judicial proceedings," said U.S. Attorney David Nahmias in a statement released Wednesday.
The videotape had been widely distributed by the office of Douglas County District Attorney David McDade since the trial concluded.
Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
The videotape is of the party where the sex act took place and was used as a primary piece of evidence at Wilson's trial.
Wonder where the 15 year old girl's parents are in all this?
There is another case in GA where a girl was giving an inter racial BJ in a high school classroom.
She was on the registry for years, but was finally released recently. Wendy something or other...
Lead plaintiff removed from sex offender registryShareThisPrint E-mail .By Bill Rankin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A 31-year-old woman who was the lead plaintiff in a high-profile federal lawsuit that sought to overturn Georgia’s sex offender law is no longer required to register as a sex offender.
Enlarge photo So. Center for Human Rights When Wendy Whitaker was 17, she engaged in a single act of oral sex with a boy in her sophomore class on school property, convicted of sodomy and was required to register as a sex offender.
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.A recent court order relieved Wendy Whitaker of the requirement, which severely restricts where offenders can live or work.
“I’m so glad this is over,” she said Friday. “It’s been a torment, a struggle. … I am so relieved that this horrible roller coaster is finally ending.”
Georgia's registered sex offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of child care centers, schools, school bus stops, swimming pools and other places where children congregate. It places similar, though less severe, restrictions as to where they can work.
In 2008, Whitaker had to obtain a court order to prevent her from being removed from her home on Thanksgiving because deputies had determined she was living within 1,000 of a church with a child care center.
Lawyers for the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta said they picked Whitaker as the lead plaintiff in the 2006 federal suit to show that the sweeping registry law was too onerous.
“This is someone who was not a threat to anyone and did not deserve the public humiliation of being placed on the state’s sex offender registry for 12 years,” Sarah Geraghty, a Southern Center senior attorney.
Whitaker was convicted of sodomy, then a felony, for having consensual oral sex 12 years ago with a fellow high school sophomore on school property. She had just turned 17; he was three weeks short of his 16th birthday.
If Whitaker had committed the same act today, she would not have to register as a sex offender. The Legislature has since passed the so-called “Romeo & Juliet” statute, which makes such an offense for teenagers of like ages a misdemeanor.
Whitaker, who lives in Thomson, was released from the registry because of a law enacted this past session of the General Assembly.
It allows certain designated sex offenders, such as those who were convicted of offenses now considered misdemeanors, to petition a Superior Court judge to gain their release from the registry.
Other exceptions are allowed for offenders convicted of kidnapping or false imprisonment of a minor and whose crimes did not involve a sexual offense, and disabled or incapacitated individuals, such as elderly offenders living in a hospice.
All those applying for exceptions must convince the judge they do not pose a substantial risk of committing any dangerous sex offenses in the future. In Whitaker’s case, McDuffie County Judge Roger Dunaway Jr. made such a finding.
The federal lawsuit is still pending before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper in Atlanta. Its primary challenge is against the residency restriction that requires sex offenders to live more than 1,000 feet away from school bus stops.
This worthless bum should be disbarred.How dare a prosecutor say that a man was guilty after he has been acquitted.
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Agreed. That's extremely unprofessional.
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