Man charged with rape uses ‘good looks’ defense

[Scuba]

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2014/03/21/man-charged-with-rape-uses-good-looks-defense/

A Georgia man says he couldn’t possibly have raped a woman at a CVS store. He’s just so good looking.



That’s Darrious Mathis’ defense in the second trial of a kidnapping, robbery and rape case out of Cobb County, according to Atlanta’s WSB-TV. Mathis used the same defense in September 2013 trial that resulted in a hung jury.

The 24-year-old victim says two and a half years earlier, she was making a quick midnight stop at an Austell CVS store when Mathis kidnapped her at gunpoint and raped her.

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Mathis says the above did not happen. He says he was at the CVS, selling pain medication in the parking lot when the victim approached him to buy some pills. Any sex following was consensual because of his charming personality and handsome features, according to his defense team.

So what do you think? Would any woman just naturally swoon?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Modest too. nt

[In_The_Wind]

2. So, a drug dealer thinks he is irresistible.

This trial is a travesty.

[sufrommich]

3. What is sad is that any lawyer would present

this as an actual defense.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. Are lawyers obliged to obey their clients in this context? N.T

[Hosnon]

5. Generally, no. The client decides the big things, such as whether to accept a plea

or go to trial.

The attorney decides the tactics to be used.

[sufrommich]

7. I really don't know. I think if I were the opposing

lawyer my first response to a " but he's good looking" defense would be "so was Ted Bundy". You would think his lawyer is at least responsible for pointing out the gaping holes in his argument.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. That's not actually the defense, it's just the headline. N.T.

[sufrommich]

9. It says right in the article that it was part

of his defense.
"Any sex following was consensual because of his charming personality and handsome features, according to his defense team."

[elehhhhna]

6. 1. he's not good loooking imo 2. Ted Bundy was handsome.

Logic fail

[linuxman]

10. When part of your defense is

"So there I was, slinging drugs in the CVS parking lot..."

You may want to rethink your strategy.

He seems to be taking liberties with "handsome" as well...

[Lunacee_2013]

11. No, the huge ego gets in the way.

Even with good lookin' guys who aren't being accused of rape, smugness is a turn-off (to me, anyway). Not that having low self-esteem is better, but someone who is comfortable in their own skin without constantly having to promote themselves is just less annoying.

As for this idiot, his real problem isn't his ego, it's the illegal pill selling and the kidnapping and the robbery, oh and the rape. That's his problem.