Another college handsome athlete might go to jail for rape! How long will this last?

[marylander1940]

 

By Tim Ghianni

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A former Vanderbilt University football player committed criminal rape and violated the laws of human decency, prosecutors said on Monday at the opening of his retrial on charges he raped an unconscious female student in June 2013.

 

Attorneys for Brandon Vandenburg, now 22, painted a completely different picture in their opening statement of his retrial, which began almost a year after a judge declared a mistrial following his conviction.

 

“He violated not only the laws of the state of Tennessee, he violated the laws of human decency,” said prosecutor Tom Thurman after he outlined what he said happened when the woman was attacked after Vandenburg and other football players brought her, unconscious, to his room.

 

However, defense attorney Randall Reagan placed the blame on the other men in the room.

 

“Brandon Vandenburg is not guilty,” he said after telling the jury his client was a heavily intoxicated observer who found himself “in way over his head” in the drinking and partying Vanderbilt football culture after transferring from a California junior college.

 

Jury selection took place last week in Memphis, 200 miles from the university in Nashville, because of concern that media coverage had made it hard to find impartial local jurors. The trial is taking place in Nashville and is expected to last up to six days, prosecutors have said.

 

Prosecutors have said the victim in the case, which drew national attention to sexual assaults on college campuses, had been drinking with friends and then with Vandenburg.

 

Vandenburg and teammate Cory Batey, two of four former Vanderbilt football players charged with counts of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery, were found guilty in January 2015 in the first trial.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rape-retrial-arguments-begin-ex-vanderbilt-football-player-110301648--nfl.html

[Kenny]

Shorter defense: "Everyone was drunk, so rape is OK." Sheesh.

[bostonman]

This sounds like the same defense as in the Brock Turner case - "OMG, I'm not used to all this drinking...the demon rum (well, more likely cheap beer) made me do it...*I* didn't rape her, it was the alcohol..." etc - and it seems we now have plenty of evidence that Turner was already a habitual partier - so I wonder about this goon as well.

 

Besides, I just can't accept "I was drunk" as an excuse. Are we soon going to see DUI cases being contested because the perpetrator was drunk, for god's sake???

[actor61]

Well, when you're raised by a man who says that his life is ruined because of 20 minutes of action, there's not much hope that the kid's going to understand what rape is.

[marylander1940]

Shorter defense: "Everyone was drunk, so rape is OK." Sheesh.

This sounds like the same defense as in the Brock Turner case - "OMG, I'm not used to all this drinking...the demon rum (well, more likely cheap beer) made me do it...*I* didn't rape her, it was the alcohol..." etc - and it seems we now have plenty of evidence that Turner was already a habitual partier - so I wonder about this goon as well.

 

Besides, I just can't accept "I was drunk" as an excuse. Are we soon going to see DUI cases being contested because the perpetrator was drunk, for god's sake???

 

Well, when you're raised by a man who says that his life is ruined because of 20 minutes of action, there's not much hope that the kid's going to understand what rape is.

 

They were all drunk yet they were able to carry the girl back to the dorm, get a hard on, rape here, cum and lie about it the next day.

 

They were drunk yet they knew they were doing something wrong.

 

C'mon guys, buy a couple of dinners and you'll get sex for months to come.