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alp227

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Thu Aug 15, 2013, 02:43 AM Aug 2013

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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Yep, Kaitlyn's parents were not credible rebecca_herman Aug 2013 #1
I wonder if Kaitlyn would get another plea deal offer alp227 Aug 2013 #2
If she were male, she would have been never offered any deal. The law operates with far less 24601 Aug 2013 #5
a benefit of female privilege leftyohiolib Aug 2013 #6
In this case ...especially if his first name was Mike. L0oniX Aug 2013 #10
And so? How does that justify anything?! JackRiddler Aug 2013 #13
Hey - who are you saying said it was justified? It was an observation of the way the law tends 24601 Aug 2013 #34
I really dislike how this issues is being framed davidpdx Aug 2013 #3
This Is Still A Crap Deal Offered By The Prosecutor DallasNE Aug 2013 #4
That charges come from the time the minor victim ran away to Kate's house and was sheltered there.nt msanthrope Aug 2013 #7
But That Fits Even Less DallasNE Aug 2013 #17
My understanding is that this was more of a planned event wherein sex was msanthrope Aug 2013 #21
Not just sheltered, Kate went and picked her up and drove her to her house. tammywammy Aug 2013 #18
The DA is going to continue to drag this out as long as he can davidpdx Aug 2013 #8
plea bargains sometimes include pleading guilty to a lesser charge the state couldn't possibly prove unblock Aug 2013 #26
Oh please. JoeyT Aug 2013 #9
She shouldn't be in jail or the sex offender registry Yo_Mama Aug 2013 #11
Do you not have better things to do JackRiddler Aug 2013 #12
The law is the law. She should have known better. alp227 Aug 2013 #14
Good Lord. Hyperventilate much? Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 #15
Then show me where I'm wrong. N/t alp227 Aug 2013 #16
Reread His/Her Post DallasNE Aug 2013 #19
Doesn't change the fact she was 18 and her friend 14 when the encounter happened. alp227 Aug 2013 #20
Actually, there's a whole class of perverts here... JackRiddler Aug 2013 #23
Just to complete the picture... JackRiddler Aug 2013 #22
Snowden is a freedom fighter. alp227 Aug 2013 #24
Kaitlyn Hunt accused of violating terms of pretrial release in Sebastian teen sex case tammywammy Aug 2013 #25
You Beat Me To It DallasNE Aug 2013 #27
Really, what would "make sense"? JackRiddler Aug 2013 #28
Here's a link to the court motion tammywammy Aug 2013 #30
This Is Just Mind Boggling DallasNE Aug 2013 #31
Apparently the plea offer was made in July (and turned down). tammywammy Aug 2013 #32
It's Hard To Follow The Bouncing Ball DallasNE Aug 2013 #33
Well, I feel vindicated. She hasn't learned. alp227 Aug 2013 #29
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