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Showing Original Post only (View all)State offers Kaitlyn Hunt plea deal that would keep her out of jail [View all]
Source: WPTV (NBC 5 West Palm Beach)
VERO BEACH, Fla. - Prosecutors are now offering Kaitlyn Hunt a new plea deal.
According to a letter Prosecutor Brian Orkman shared with WPTV, the new deal would keep Hunt out of jail.
Police say Hunt was 18 years old when she had sexual relations with a 14 year old girl.
If she accepted the deal, she would plea to two counts of misdemeanor battery and one count of felony interference with child custody.
Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state-offers-kaitlyn-hunt-plea-deal-that-would-keep-her-out-of-jail
WPTV's YouTube channel has two segments about Hunt from Wednesday's 5PM News:
First a report:
Then a legal analysis:
CNN also has an article "Prosecutors press teen charged in sexual relations with younger girl to take deal" written by Sara Ganim, the reporter most well known for breaking the Penn State child abuse scandal story for Harrisburg, Pa. newspaper The Patriot-News.
As I posted before, Kaitlyn's mother has ZERO credibility in the stories she has told about her daughter from Day One of publicizing it. The best thing for her community and to avoid another media circus in Florida after Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman? TAKE THE FXXXING PLEA DEAL. That's the logical thing to do. But I doubt the average modern American teenager has any non narcissistic brain cells.
As if it's hard enough to defend liberalism in this age of right wing mythology dominating the internet and public opinion, the left fckued itself over a lot by trying to defend Kaitlyn. Publications like The Advocate and Slate have written sympathetically about Kaitlyn, and Chris Hayes had a long softball interview with Kaitlyn, Kaitlyn's mother, and Kaitlyn's lawyer on his MSNBC show All In in May (video) (transcript). And Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur have spoken in defense of Kaitlyn, for instance on the May 28 Young Turks:
Way to go. They have given the usual right wing ghetto internet a lot to write about and set us back a whole football field.
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If she were male, she would have been never offered any deal. The law operates with far less
24601
Aug 2013
#5
Hey - who are you saying said it was justified? It was an observation of the way the law tends
24601
Aug 2013
#34
That charges come from the time the minor victim ran away to Kate's house and was sheltered there.nt
msanthrope
Aug 2013
#7
plea bargains sometimes include pleading guilty to a lesser charge the state couldn't possibly prove
unblock
Aug 2013
#26
Doesn't change the fact she was 18 and her friend 14 when the encounter happened.
alp227
Aug 2013
#20
Kaitlyn Hunt accused of violating terms of pretrial release in Sebastian teen sex case
tammywammy
Aug 2013
#25