Adrian Peterson reaches plea agreement in felony child-abuse case
Source: Yahoo Sports
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has reached a plea agreement that will allow him to plead no contest to misdemeanor reckless assault, Yahoo Sports has confirmed.
Peterson is expected to appear in a Montgomery County (Texas) courthouse Tuesday and agree to the plea, which will allow the Vikings star to avoid a felony child-abuse conviction. Peterson will instead be sentenced to probation and community service, as well as a monetary fine. The Pro Football Talk report said Peterson would be subject to 80 hours of community service and a $2,000 fine.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/adrian-peterson-reaches-plea-agreement-in-felony-child-abuse-case-163122128.html
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)wrong message send here. Money talks and every thing else means zero. So much for being held accountable for person actions. Were are all the anti-family violence groups. This guy should be your poster child.
TBF
(32,090 posts)Malraiders
(444 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"People feel more empathy with dogs than they do their own species, a new study suggests. Children, however, remain about on par as with canines."
"Contrary to popular thinking, we are not necessarily more disturbed by animal rather than human suffering," said study co-author Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University in a statement. "Our results indicate a much more complex situation with respect to the age and species of victims, with age being the more important component."
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)In a time of evolving social norms I think that is an appropriate sentence for an act that falls somewhere between child abuse and poor parenting. His high profile will draw more productive attention to the cause of children's rights through community service than any satisfaction society draws from punishing him with jail time after a drawn out legal fight.
TBF
(32,090 posts)I wasn't aware whipping a child with a stick until he bled wasn't child abuse. That's a pretty sick definition of what is.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)ekelly
(421 posts)Letting a 4 yr old stay up til 1am eating Halloween candy is poor parenting.
Drawing blood, while hitting a 4 yr old with a stick, is ABUSE!
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)"This is America, Krusty - we don't put our celebrities in jail!"
Chakab
(1,727 posts)If celebs abuse, rape or murder other human beings, people don't care as much.
George II
(67,782 posts)Case in point - Ray Lewis.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)Ray Lewis has gotten a LOT of negative press and negative attention for this incident- well deserved, imo. The only reason we even know about it is because he is a celebrity.
Thousands of people are victims of domestic violence every day. Most of them nobody ever hears about. Punishment for domestic violence is, all too often, a slap on the wrist and an order to attend "anger management" classes. Hitting a stranger, or even an acquaintance, results in stiffer penalties.
George II
(67,782 posts)Ray Lewis was involved in two murders, drove the getaway car, and the clothes he wore that night mysteriously disappeared.
But you're correct, thousands of people (women AND men) are victims of domestic violence, and we do hear about those that result in murder.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)but I wouldn't say well deserved as it has led to misconceptions and countless "Ray Lewis is a murderer" claims. He wasn't even involved in the fight which another witness testified too -- a lot of what we know or facts presented on what happened that night come from Ray Lewis' trial testimony in which the prosecution didn't have a case without. Even with it, the 2 men were acquitted on the grounds of self-defense even with Lewis portrayal of them as the aggressors.
Not that he came out looking like the good guy, just not in the ways other people take it. Meaning and these are assumptions on my part that I don't consider any more than a possibility is the reason he probably wasn't involved in the fight is he had a career to think about which was also probably the reason he was quick to flip on his friends and paint whatever picture the prosecutor wanted.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)If say 5 people choose to do a residential burglary and one of them kills the homeowner surprised by the encounter even without input from the others all of them are typically charged with murder. He agreed to testify right away (deal to murder dropped guilty plea to obstruction of justice) against the 2 who he was with, he was basically the prosecutors' case which still wasn't enough because the jury acquitted the 2 men he was with on the grounds of self-defense. The ironic thing is he is the only one that served a sentence related to the incident.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)An entitlement for highly paid sports figures, I guess.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)<snip>
If you change the barbecue sauce just slightly, Monroe almost tastes the same as Conroe. Both are small, predominantly white, southern towns with similar values, having cast 65 and 80 percent of their votes, respectively, for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Monroe is about 25 miles from Charlotte, Conroe about 40 miles from Houston, where Hardin has worked for decades.
In small towns like these, Hardin says people grow up with a broader mix of people than they might in bigger cities, where people cluster in neighborhoods and schools of the same economic class.
That makes it easy for him to connect because he feels like he knows them.
In small towns, "you grow up generally in a less privileged environment, around average people, and that's who one day is on your jury," Hardin said. "I told people if I had any advantage in what I've done, is that I'm an average person. There are eons of lawyers brighter than me. I think one thing that has helped me is that because I am an average person of no more than average intelligence or ability, I think I hear things the way the average person does."
Prosecutors know what they will face if the case goes to trial. Hardin describes himself as "an incredible admirer of juries," which is almost an understatement. Before he entered private practice in 1991, he worked on the other side of the aisle as a Houston prosecutor. He did not lose a felony jury trial in more than 100 tries, including 14 death-penalty cases.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/11/03/adrian-peterson-felony-child-abuse-charge-rusty-hardin/18424029/
If information is accurate it appears his attorney is talented at connecting to red county juries and a decent chance of winning the case in areas where corporal punishment is supported even though the evidence points to violation of the law.
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Humans are emotional creatures. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys do their utmost to leverage this fact in their trial strategies. Unfortunately, this turns the courtroom from a place of facts, logic and reason into theater. The attorneys are playing to a human audience, and they do whatever they can to engender strong feelings on the part of the jury hate, disgust, bias, support, or sympathy. The trial becomes not about facts and logic, but about emotion and feelings. Im familiar with one trial in which the prosecutor stated to the jury that the defenses expert witnesses were nothing but whores, and were only testifying for the money. So, I suppose the prosecutions expert witnesses were testifying pro bono right?
http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2013/02/20/why-i-think-the-us-justice-system-is-broken-and-why-its-not-getting-fixed/
Plea bargaining is similar to any time of bargaining situation in there is the bargaining power they feel the have which varies from the actual bargaining power they actually have while estimating the other parties' true bargaining power. Prosecutor could have overestimated the defendant's attorney bargaining power in this situation.
Sparky 1
(400 posts)The "brakes" that stop healthy-minded parents from doing anything like that are not installed in Adrian Peterson's brain. He didn't realize he had done anything wrong.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)I just picked him up on my fantasy team.
that is all