:::TRIGGER WARNING:::
Looks like we have another mini-Trump running around. This time in in Adams County, Illinois.
He thinks he’s the victim of a “political hit-job.”
Sound familiar?
And that’s not the only familiar thing in this story, as you’ll see.
Three months after a bench trial in Oct. 2021, where Judge Robert K. Adrian adjudicated 18-year-old Drew Clinton guilty of rape, the judge reversed his decision. No, he didn’t just give the man no prison time at his sentencing. He set him totally free.
And guess what kind of rape it was?
The judge says “the defendant’s had plenty of punishment.”
Original story here
THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT of the STATE of ILLINOIS — DECISION
'Known Christian conservative' judge says his ouster over sexual assault reversal was 'total political hit job'
BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
FEBRUARY 27, 2024, 10:44 AM CST
A judge who declared that a sexual assault defendant had “plenty of punishment” before reversing the conviction has been removed from the bench.
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In a January 2022 hearing, Adrian said Clinton had received “plenty of punishment” after spending 148 days in jail and reversed the youth’s conviction. Illinois sentencing law required Clinton to spend four years in prison. Adrian had initially convicted Clinton, who was 18 years old when he was charged, in a bench trial in October 2021.
Clinton’s sexual assault conviction was for placing his finger in the vagina of a 16-year-old victim at a graduation party when she was unable to give knowing consent. Adrian initially acquitted Clinton on two other counts alleging vaginal penetration with his penis.
The victim had testified that she got drunk, fell asleep and awoke with a pillow pushed in her face as Clinton sexually assaulted her.
During the January 2022 hearing, Adrian said he can’t sentence Clinton to time served, which would be a just sentence. But he can reconsider his verdict and find Clinton not guilty, he said.
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The Illinois Courts Commission said Adrian’s justification for the reversal was a “subterfuge.” Adrian’s conduct, his comments at the sentencing hearing, and his reversal order “are clear and convincing evidence that [Adrian] reversed his guilty finding to thwart and circumvent the law that required him to impose a mandatory prison term upon Clinton,” the commission said.
The commission found that Adrian gave “misleading and deceptive explanations regarding his true reasons for reversing himself,” demonstrating “an utter disregard for the integrity of the judiciary.”
The commission also said Adrian violated ethics rules when he ordered a prosecutor to leave his courtroom for liking a social media post that criticized Adrian’s reversal. The prosecutor has accepted Adrian’s apology and later appeared in front of Adrian.
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The 16-year-old girl who accused Clinton told the Chicago Tribune after Adrian’s ouster that she was “very happy that the commission could see all the wrong and all the lies that he told the entire time. I’m so unbelievably happy right now. He can’t hurt anybody else. He can’t ruin anyone else’s life.”
Want a little glimpse of what this country is in store for, should Trump install his Christian Kingdom?
Look no further………
The judge may just as well have said, “She was asking for it”
So, the penalty for underage drinking is sexual assault?
You’d think a good christian lad would have woke her up, and found her a ride home……...
But HEY, what’s he supposed to do when he sees a drunk 16-year-old girl laying there on the couch? Just walk away????
This judge thinks christian-conservative judges should be allowed to do whatever they want.
And in Trump’s proposed America-2025, white, christian, male heterosexuals will be allowed to do whatever they damn well please. Just, because.
And the rest of you can’t. Just, because.
The rest of you just have to take it.
Only WE’RE NOT TAKING IT ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!