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View Poll Results: The Sentence Should Be....
execution -violent/physical 2 20.00%
execution -humane/chemical 0 0%
castration -violent/physical 1 10.00%
castration -humane/chemical 0 0%
life imprisonment with labor/community service 0 0%
life imprisonment with counselling 0 0%
life imprisonment, no special conditions 0 0%
fixed term imprisonment with labor/community service 1 10.00%
fixed term imprisonment with counselling 4 40.00%
fixed term imprisonment no special conditions 1 10.00%
other (write in) 1 10.00%
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Old 05-30-2008, 04:34 AM   #10
Sundae
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Juries are swayed by a good lawyer...starstruck with the show. I could not convict a man for having sex with an almost "adult" by the standards of our society. Seriously...check out online videos. I don't mean to be cynical, but I am about this. How can you convict? If it were a much younger girl, of course. Now I'm wondering where the line is drawn. Who gets to draw that line?
I thought the crime in question was rape? Isn't the age of consent 16 over there too?
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