With respect-I think you misread my post. I was responding to someone who had mentioned that the boys thought they would get off DURING and LEADING UP to the trial and they were "surprised" they got convicted. Apparently, one of the boys planned to hit Wendy's after the trial.
If you read any of my previous posts on this forum, you will realize that I am absolutely POSITIVE that these boys knew what they did was WRONG, it was RAPE, and was against the law.
My comment was only that because they had their lawyers, their parents, their coaches, etc...tell them they hand't done anything wrong, it was the girl's fault, they wouldn't get convicted, etc...that they felt that the judge would also be fooled into thinking the same.
My post was ONLY about their belief that they wouldn't be convicted. NOT that they didn't realize they had done anything wrong.
I hope I've clarified this correctly.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE INTERPRETED AS TO BEING A RAPE APOLOGIST IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!!!
ETA: Good grief!!! I just looked back and I had actually responded to YOUR POST!!! How in the world did you take what I responded to you in your post as anything close to what you just accused me of thinking??? Where in my post does it say anything that the boys didn't think they did anything wrong??? Please look back through this thread and find me one poster that isn't as vocal as I have been on this case and my passion about this case. I am really quite offended that you would call me out like that without even reading everything I have posted.
I will chalk it up to the fact that you are just as infuriated and I am about this case. We are both on the same side of this.
No, no. I was just saying that I don't buy that anyone told them their behaviors were acceptable (maybe the coach). I think they thought that they would get off because they are arrogant jerks and only played the "we didn't know what we were doing wrong" as a sob story. I didn't mean to insinuate otherwise, I was more less just trying to add to your comment.
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