Montana Supreme Court overturns 1-month sentence for teacher who raped student.

[The Straight Story]

Breaking now, will add more info when it comes up:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/461528291678367745

This source is direct from AP:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-newsalert-618


BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a one-month prison sentence given to a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student.

Wednesday's decision cited in part the actions of District Judge G. Todd Baugh (baw) of Billings, who suggested the young victim shared responsibility for her rape because she had some control over the situation.

Justices said a new judge must re-sentence defendant Stacey Dean Rambold.

Rambold has been free since completing his sentence last fall. Prosecutors for the state say he should serve a mandatory minimum of four years prison.

Rambold's attorneys had argued that the original sentence was appropriate.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/montana-teachers-1-month-rape-sentence-overturned

[Mr_Rogers]

1. Glad to hear it...

[Arkana]

4. Um...I think the article said the rapist was being re-sentenced.

Hopefully to something much, much longer.

[BlueCaliDem]

8. Uhm...there was no other link in the OP than the twitter link.

And yes, I hope he'll be sentenced to the full four years and registered as a pedophile for the rest of his life.

[Arkana]

9. Only four?

Fuck that noise.

[BlueCaliDem]

11. Four years as a sex offender - especially having raped a child - is an eternity

and most don't survive it anyway. They are targeted for the kill by their fellow inmates.

[Mr_Rogers]

5. Well excuse me....

The link broke for me and I thought that it was overturned to a more substantial punishment.

So before you go gleefully jumping down people's throats maybe you should apply Occam's razor and think what is more likely..

a) A misunderstanding in the tiny amount of information initially provided

or

b) A pro-pedophile apologist proudly proclaiming to the world in a place that would promptly remove him from that group

Get off your high horse and think...

Edit: Gosh, it does look like he is likely getting resentenced to a more substantial prison term. Golly gee.. Whodathunkit....

[tkmorris]

12. Oh fer chrissake Blue...

YOU assumed the poster was cheering for a rapist. Only YOU. I didn't, because that would be completely ridiculous. Near as I can tell no one else did either. You got it wrong. Completely backwards in fact.

That's cool. Mistakes get made all the time. What defines us is the grace with which we handle those mistakes. For some reason you have decided that you would refuse to take ownership of your error and instead up the ante by blaming the poster you originally falsely accused of SUPPORTING A RAPIST, which is about as egregious an accusation as is possible to make. It's disgraceful.

[Mr_Rogers]

17. Way to double down on your obvious misunderstanding...

It's almost impressive....

[yawnmaster]

18. Reading that tweet log, many also jumped to the wrong conclusion...

so don't feel too bad regarding your quick reaction, many would have also made it with almost no information.

[tkmorris]

14. Welcome to DU Mr. Rogers

I apologize it hasn't been more pleasant thus far. Most of us are a bit friendlier and a wee bit less likely to jump to absurd conclusions, so I do hope you aren't put off too much by this episode.

[Mr_Rogers]

22. Much appreciated...

Seems someone cared enough to remove them though...

There's always one no matter where you go...

[TDale313]

23. Let me add my welcome as well. n/t

[TDale313]

7. I think you misunderstood what happened.

The rapist will be resentenced, almost definitely for a more appropriate, longer sentence.

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Actually, I didn't. Read my "BEEP-BEEP_BEEP" post in response to the poster above.

There was no link to an AP story in the OP when the first poster responded and I responded to him.

[TDale313]

13. Look, I don't know what was in that poster's head

But in the end, they were cheering something that *is* a good thing. That one month sentence was disgusting and deserved to be overturned, and a far more appropriate, much longer one handed down. With that, I'm out.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. the OP does not show an edit...

so, it looks to me like the whole thing IS there... with three links AND inline text.

sP

OnEdit : I must have missed something. Are we not showing info on whether the post was edited? Did it move and I just can't find it?

[Make7]

19. Edit History:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=thread&info=1&address=10024890103#edits

Posts don't show the red edit text if you edit within 30 minutes now. (I think it's 30 minutes anyway.)

To see the edit history, click on the 'Thread Info' button for OPs or Permalink for replies.

[Go Vols]

20. From the twitter link

I clicked on "AP" thats beside every post,clicked details,then clicked on the story and got this that was posted two hours before this thread was started.

MORE: Justices said a new judge must re-sentence the defendant: http://apne.ws/1ktDWaU

[11 Bravo]

3. Did they decide the sentence was too onerous? (Reading the comments one could get that idea.)

Instead I hope this is in preparation for imposing a much l-o-n-g-e-r sentence.

[yawnmaster]

16. related...judge should be disciplined

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/board-says-montana-judge-should-be-disciplined

A judicial oversight board is seeking disciplinary action against a state judge for saying a 14-year-old rape victim was "older than her chronological age" and sentencing her rapist to just one month in prison, according to court documents released Tuesday.

[TDale313]

21. Agreed.