Kaitlyn Hunt refuses plea deal in underage same-sex case

[RiverNoord]

87. lol - that was rather amusing,

running through some of those posts.

I figured I was wasting my time when the person just wouldn't accept that this was considered a statutory rape offense, notwithstanding the specific Florida statutory language defining the specific criminal acts and their severity. I've almost never run across a layperson who doesn't have a pretty good idea about what statutory rape is.

And seriously, why would someone want to lie about being a lawyer? In my practice it's a day to day slugfest and certainly not in any way glamorous - and, frankly, my opinion of lawyers in general, after years of practice, is that about a quarter of us are halfways decent human beings... Most of the time I feel that I fall into that quarter...

Anyway, thanks for the post. It was odd getting attacked by someone like that when I merely wanted to point out that it's perhaps not a particularly good case to defend - on the moral issues or from a purely legal standpoint. At least on the legal end, I know I'd have one hell of a time defending an 18 year old who admitted sex with a 14 year-old, if the prosecution decided to press it...