Tide Teabagger Trial This Week

[WrapItDog]

Downing rejected a deal to plead guilty to obscenity and serve a two-year jail sentence, without being required to register as a sex offender. Downing is charged with sexual battery and obscenity. He could face as much as 10 years in prison if convicted on the battery count.

Full story

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[GTAdawg]

"Downing unleashed his genitals on the victim"

I laughed at that line in the article. But in all seriousness this is just a bad situation all around. Hopefully the guy doesn't get the sex offender label put on him.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

same here, fine the ever loving **** outta him and make him do a bajillion hours of community service...

prison & sex offender status shouldn't be on the table.

 

[hotdigitydog]

Maybe he and that idiot Updyke can share a cell.........

nt

 

[hatfieldms]

Well, when you decide to put your balls in someone's face who is passed out, then you really can't complain about what they make you register as

 

[Spanky.sixpack]

What?

That dipshit deserves every bit of what is coming to him. Pardon me for not feeling sorry for him.

Maybe he should 'unleash' his balls on your face. Either you'd like it or your opinion would change.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Got to have positive ID

Will they show the jury the evidence?

 

[WrapItDog]

I don't think there is any doubt that he is the "Tea Bagger" I guess it all comes down to the jury deciding what crime if any was committed and punishment.

 

[FreeDawg]

That dipshit deserves every bit of what is coming to him. Pardon me for not feeling sorry for him.

Maybe he should 'unleash' his balls on your face. Either you'd like it or your opinion would change.

 

[biguglyjoe]

I agree. 17 him.

 

[GTAdawg]

I didn't say the SOB shouldn't be punished..

That dipshit deserves every bit of what is coming to him. Pardon me for not feeling sorry for him.

Maybe he should 'unleash' his balls on your face. Either you'd like it or your opinion would change.

And I don't necessarily feel sorry for him. I just think the severity is over done in comparison to other criminal/illegal acts. But that's opening a whole other can of worms.

 

[1msudawg]

I don't think there is any doubt that he is the "Tea Bagger" I guess it all comes down to the jury deciding what crime if any was committed and punishment.

I am not sure which is funnier.. Karl's comment or the fact that you completely missed what he was referring to.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

so, in your book...

this cat should fall in the same category as those that rape and molest small children?

good to know.

 

[Sutterkane]

Yes, he absolutely should. If the victim was a female, child, or even an elderly person all of this dude's defenders would be singing a different tune. If you like to pull your junk out in public and rub it forcibly on people, you are 100% a sex offender. The drunk argument shouldn't give him a pass either.

 

[DerHntr]

Yes he should. Put your balls on an incapacitated stranger's face and you should as well.

 

[EAVdog]

Easy resolution, take away his teabag and let him go.

All kidding aside that 'sex offender' status is a terrible thing. Here in Georgia you would be a pariah forever. And as bad as this is it's not rape or child molestation. Close, but not as bad.

I think he was pretty dumb not to take the plea deal, do a little time and walk away with good behavior. He could very well end up doing 2 years and being labelled a sex offender. Just think what his punishment will be if his trial ends after Bama whips the piss out of LSU in a few weeks. He'll be bucking broncos in Angola (and not during the rodeo).

 

[BehrDawg]

same here, fine the ever loving **** outta him and make him do a bajillion hours of community service...

prison & sex offender status shouldn't be on the table.

Until they do it to you, then how would you feel?

 

[BoomBoom.sixpack]

No one care's about if if if if. It wasn't a female, a child, or a blue hair. It was a dude. In proper context, it was a prank. Way over the line, deserving of punishment, but a prank. If it was a child etc., it wouldn't be a case of a guy who took a prank too far, it'd be a guy with serious problems who is likely to do far worse. One deserves to take up space in jail (freeing another criminal), and the other doesn't.

 

[Sutterkane]

So what is deserving of jail time in grown male on male forced action? Is buttrape cool or is that also just a prank.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

some of yall are nuts. I guess we agree to disagree.

Fine the guy $250,000 and give it to the victim... make he pick up used condoms in bourbon street for the next 10 Mardi Gras...

but to classify this as a similar offense as child rape/molestation is myopic, deluded and generally just a 17d up way of thinking.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

Behr if the Judicial System will fine you $250,000....

give me the money, and make you do community service at my house for 10 years, you can rub your balls on my face for few seconds while I'm passed out drunk.

and post it on the net.

 

[Spanky.sixpack]

If this guy wasn't an Alabama fan.....

you probably wouldn't have an opinion at all.

Get your priorities right.

 

[hatfieldms]

Once again you rubbed your balls on the face of a passed out stranger....

.....you get what you deserve. I have zero sympathy for this dumb *** and you wouldn't either if he wasn't a Bama fan

 

[patdog]

I'm don't quite understand how putting your genitals in someone's mouth isn't deserving of being labeled as sexual abuse. Actually, I'm not even close to understanding it. You can call it a stupid drunken prank, and it was. But being drunk and stupid doesn't excuse what it is.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

I agree with the guy that said remove his tea bags. Problem solved.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

I could say the same thing about you....nm

nm

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

Wow... I wasn't aware there was "fellatio" invovled...

if he actually stuck his junk in the dude's mouth then he's a dumbass for not takin' the plea...

i just thought he teabagged the victim.

 

[johnson86-1]

Did he put anything in the guy's mouth?

I'm don't quite understand how putting your genitals in someone's mouth isn't deserving of being labeled as sexual abuse. Actually, I'm not even close to understanding it. You can call it a stupid drunken prank, and it was. But being drunk and stupid doesn't excuse what it is.

I never saw or heard that. You people need to realize that if you don't have family money to fall back on, being labeled as a sex offender is not much better than a lengthy jail sentence. You're pretty much never get your life back. The guy's a prick and deserves some punishment, but you're crazy if you want to spend tax dollars supporting this guy for the rest of his life.

 

[Sutterkane]

So what constitutes jail time tusk? Rubbing balls on face is ok, but what if he got a boner? What if only a little a little precum came out during the **********? Hope I'm not getting you too worked up with my erotic fiction forced ball rubbing story. As for me, it moved a little.

 

[Woof Man Jack]

Downing rejected a deal to plead guilty to obscenity and serve a two-year jail sentence, without being required to register as a sex offender. Downing is charged with sexual battery and obscenity. He could face as much as 10 years in prison if convicted on the battery count.

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I think where you guys are making a mistake, is assuming this is a subjective argument.

From the article: "In Louisiana law, sexual battery is defined as "the intentional touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the offender, or the touching of the anus or genitals of the offender by the victim using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the victim," when there is no consent."

The law clearly defines what sexual battery is, and it clearly defines what the punishment is. Do you all think lawyers and judges should be given the freedom to pick and choose which parts of the law and its punishment should apply to each case? If so, then just throw the legal system out the window.

 

[patdog]

It's a lot less unfair to put him on the list than it is to put some guy who didn't do anything more than pee in public. There's no doubt there are some serious problems with the list. It should only include serious offenses. This is borderline to qualifying for the list even if they did make some much needed changes to the criteria for being included on the list.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

you're really dumb and/or immature and/or just arguementative sp...

i do like your style though... nice retort.

 

[johnson86-1]

Yes, I believe there should be prosecutorial discretion.

I think where you guys are making a mistake, is assuming this is a subjective argument.

From the article: "In Louisiana law, sexual battery is defined as "the intentional touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the offender, or the touching of the anus or genitals of the offender by the victim using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the victim," when there is no consent."

The law clearly defines what sexual battery is, and it clearly defines what the punishment is. Do you all think lawyers and judges should be given the freedom to pick and choose which parts of the law and its punishment should apply to each case? If so, then just throw the legal system out the window.

It's often abused, but this is the type of situation it's meant for. We have already screwed up the sex offender registry, so having one more person on there that doesn't belong won't matter to anybody other than that person and his friends and family, but in general I'd prefer that the punishment fit the crime.

A punishment that forever forecloses the potential for the guy to get a decent job, forever limits where he can live, and never lets him serve his debt is disproportionate. If that's the right punishment, we should probably start executing people left and right for a lot of other crimes, probably any crime where there is a victim.

 

[BoomBoom.sixpack]

I hope that's not a serious question.

nm

 

[Spanky.sixpack]

Seriously? 'I know you are but what am I' smack?

My opinion is that this guy gets whatever the law throws at him. Yours is that he should not be punished much, well, just because. It was a prank after all. Nothing to see here.

Even your sidewalk *** can see the bias there. It's football, guy. I'm not going to agree with every MSU guy and I will not even attempt to take up for the dumbasses. If you teabag a guy or hit someone with a cowbell, you get what's coming to you.

What I do NOT agree with, is stereotyping the Alabama guy as one of the Bama rednecks or something. Just like I don't think cowbells should be outlawed because one guy used it as a weapon. See the difference?

 

[muddy]

I think where you guys are making a mistake, is assuming this is a subjective argument.

From the article: "In Louisiana law, sexual battery is defined as "the intentional touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the offender, or the touching of the anus or genitals of the offender by the victim using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the victim," when there is no consent."

The law clearly defines what sexual battery is, and it clearly defines what the punishment is. Do you all think lawyers and judges should be given the freedom to pick and choose which parts of the law and its punishment should apply to each case? If so, then just throw the legal system out the window.

According to the law he committed both crimes, obscenity and sexual battery. There is ample evidence to prove his guilt. Why on earth would this guy not accept a plea deal that would allow him not to be labeled a sex offender? He has no chance of winning his case as he's clearly guilty.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

"My opinion is that this guy gets whatever the law throws at him."

so, if the law "decided" he should get life in prison, you'd be ok with that?

dude, I hate the fact that some moron bammer fan did this ****... but I wouldn't care if it were an Aubie that did it... he should be fined very very heavily, forced to do community service and MAYBE a short stint in the local pokey...

if you think SO status and a lengthy prison sentence is in order for this, you're out of your mind...

and again, he probably should have taken the plea deal.

i just dont think one can equate child rape with what he did. perhaps you think they are one in the same...

moving along now....

 

[johnson86-1]

You're forgetting jury nullification. I'd say he's got a pretty good chance of

...Why on earth would this guy not accept a plea deal that would allow him not to be labeled a sex offender? He has no chance of winning his case as he's clearly guilty.

hanging the jury on any charge that involves being registered as a sex offender or more than a year in jail. All it takes is one reasonable juror with a conscience that understands what it means to label somebody a sex offender. If the judge will let the lawyer educate the jury as to what it will mean (not sure he'll be able to) then you just need a reasonable juror with a conscience. That said, that's still a huge risk to take, but I can understand why he turned down two years of jail time. Even if the odds are against him at trial, going to jail and getting *** raped for two years only to come out and try to get a good job as a convict is probably a bad enough outcome that rolling the dice seems reasonable.

 

[Spanky.sixpack]

so, if the law "decided" he should get life in prison, you'd be ok with that?

You know as well as I do that won't happen.

The system is the system, you just have to trust it. I'm not feeling sorry for him, though. Don't break the law, especially in those type ways. I didn't feel sorry for Dontae Walker either, although I thought his sentence was indeed much. Eventually it worked itself out as he is now free.

 

[Sutterkane]

I'm simply asking you at what point of sexual assault do you put a man in jail