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Originally Posted by Jay Random
To be clear: By ‘no one else’, you mean the victim's mother, plus a bunch of people who have never personally witnessed any of these actions and are going by her version of events?
She doesn't think he's shown remorse. She has also made it clear that she doesn't think he is capable of remorse, and that she will never accept anything he does from this day forward as evidence of remorse. There is literally nothing he can do that will change her feelings. Is that a reason to punish him for the rest of his life?
There's a reason why we don't let victims or their families sit on juries. And there's a reason why we don't allow convictions when one of the jurors is certain the accused is guilty.
Under our legal system, nobody has ever been sent to prison because the victim's mother wanted it to happen – but that's exactly what one poster has suggested. And in our society, ‘one strike and you're out’ is not and has never been the law – but that's how a lot of you want things to be done.
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Wow, why did you cut my quote off directly when it contradicts your statement? That’s really sketchy.
Again, clearly they accepted the apology of the other boy implicated in the situation, so yes, I do believe in the years between the incident and when we was drafted, he had the opportunity to actually show remorse and apologize. And if he did so, the family wouldn’t be as outspoken as they are now. He did not do those things. Not until it was clear it was going to affect his future.
You intentionally cutting my quote off and misrepresenting what I’m saying isn’t changing that.