1/ Credit to J Chris Cochran for the research and post. I thought everyone should know the TRUTH about Roy Moore’s SOFT ON CRIME approach to rape and sodomy (proven by his own disturbing record as a jurist):
2/ In 13 of 16 sexual crimes cases, Moore sided with the offender over state prosecutors. In 10 instances between 2013 and 2016, Moore took the side of alleged offenders over the court’s majority when the alleged rapists were appealing to the court to overturn their convictions
3/ for sexual crimes. The details of some of the cases where Moore ruled against the victim:
4/ David Pittman pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl. Moore argued that Pittman should have been able to “present evidence to the court indicating that the child had been sexually active” to reduce his culpability.
5/ Sherman Tate was convicted of forcing two 15-year-old girls to touch him sexually. Moore argued that'll Tate “should have been allowed to tell jurors that ‘he believed’ the girls were bisexual and in a relationship together” -
6/ --to anyone with a law degree and half a brain, this would clearly be irrelevant, immaterial and otherwise inadmissible; assuming the child-molester’s “belief” about the children he molested had some probative value (it doesn’t),
7/ it is obviously substantially outweighed by the danger of undue prejudice and/or the tendency to confuse or mislead the jury.
8/ Eric Higdon was convicted of assaulting several young children and of raping a four-year-old boy. Moore argued that the evidence did not support a lower court’s finding that Higdon had assaulted a child using ‘forcible compulsion’ because the child was too young to fight back.
9/ James Ware was convicted of raping a sleeping graduate student, then leaving her bound and blindfolded. Moore argued that Ware should have been granted permission to haul every single one of her coworkers from her lab into court for questioning —
10/ a tactic used to humiliate women into silence.
11/ Lanice Bonds was a school police officer who was convicted of having sex with a 17-year-old student. Moore argued that since Bonds was a school police officer (clearly having a position of power over children in the school), he was not “technically” a school employee.
Robert Simmons was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse and sodomy of a six-year-old girl. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Moore was, once again, the sole jurist to argue that Simmons had not been represented well enough by his attorneys.
13/ If you feel the need to defend Roy Moore, including his record of being SOFT ON RAPE AND SODOMY OF CHILDREN, be honest and admit that no one and no fact will ever be able to convince otherwise.
