No jail time for Baylor fraternity president accused of rape

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 2:31 pm CST, Monday, December 10, 2018

WACO, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Monday accepted a plea bargain allowing a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of rape to avoid serving jail time, prompting outrage from the former Baylor student who filed the complaint and her parents.

Judge Ralph Strother accepted the plea deal for Jacob Walter Anderson, who was indicted on sexual assault charges and pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint. A no contest plea means a defendant does not admit guilt, but will offer no defense.

The deal from prosecutors allowed Anderson to receive deferred probation. The ex-Phi Delta Theta president agrees to seek counseling and pay a $400 fine. Anderson will not be forced to register as a sex offender.

The woman who accused Anderson said she was devastated by the judge's decision and described the county's justice system as "severely broken." An online petition had been created to oppose the plea agreement, which the woman said more than 85,000 people have signed.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/No-jail-time-for-Baylor-fraternity-president-13454573.php

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Jacob W. Anderson, 20, a Baylor University fraternity president, was arrested March 3, 2016, accused of
sexually assaulting a woman outside a fraternity party. (Courtesy of Waco Tribune-Herald)


(Ken Starr is the President of Baylor. Shouldn't he conduct a lengthy investigation on this rape?)

[DURHAM D]

1. The only reason Starr would investigate is if the

perp is a registered Democrat.

[Raster]

3. How true! Dollars-to-donuts that Fratboy is a rethuglican*...

...it's in the DNA in Texas.

[SkyDaddy7]

17. Kenneth Starr is a true PIG!!!

He also used his influence to get Jeffery Epstein, Trump’s billionaire friend, a BS plea deal after he was caught trafficking & raping countless girls as young as 13yrs old!!!

...Starr makes me

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. The Most Punchable Face of the day! 🤬

[smirkymonkey]

24. I'll second that!

What a little punk!

[DoctorJoJo]

4. All People Are Equal Under the Law, But Some People With Clout Are Way More Equal!

[JCMach1]

5. The rape climate has been thick at Baylor for years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University_sexual_assault_scandal

[TryLogic]

14. Oh, that good old Sourthern Baptist University

[old guy]

6. Remember this face.

This is not the last trouble he will be in.

[Lonestarblue]

7. Future Supreme Court justice!

He has all the qualifications.

[old guy]

8. Never thought about that. Ha.

[47of74]

9. Baylor needs to suffer the NCAA death penalty

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

10. Ken Starr isn't the president.

Linda Livingstone is the Baylor University president now.

[SkyDaddy7]

18. Right, Starr was given the boot...

After he tried to protect the football players who gang raped a girl! ...If my memory serves me correctly.

Not sure if this incident happen under his watch I need to read about it.

[Calista241]

11. More info from a local source:

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Ex-BU-frat-president-set-for-sentencing-Monday-in-Waco-courtroom-502318971.html

The victim learned of the lesser plea via an email from LaBorde, which in part reads: “I’ve accepted an offer on Jacob Anderson. It’s for probation on the charge of felony unlawful restraint not sexual assault – therefore, he will not have to register as a sex offender. I realize this is not the outcome we had hoped for or that I had originally offered, but I tried a very similar case to this one last month, and lost.

“In light of the similarities between the cases, it’s my opinion it would be worse to try Anderson and lose and have the entire matter wiped from his criminal history than to accept this plea offer,” LaBorde wrote.

"Let us remind everyone that our oath is to seek justice. In pursuit of that ideal, we must evaluate each case alone on its own merit. Early in this case, law enforcement believed that the victim may have been drugged and this belief has been widely disseminated in the media; however, the evidence did not support that theory," he said.

[Jim Lane]

20. Thanks, this is important info

The defendant is accused of rape. Denunciations on DU don't put anyone in prison, though. The prosecutor had to weigh the danger that, if he took the case to trial, the defendant would be acquitted on all charges and would suffer no penalty whatsoever. Whether the plea bargain was a fair one depends in part on the strength of each side's evidence.

The prosecutor also had to take account of the predisposition of the jury pool. In that county, there might be quite a few prospective jurors who would accept defense arguments about what the woman was wearing or the like.

[gay texan]

12. Baylor Connections n/t

[paleotn]

13. Hate to say this....

but it it were my daughter, jail would be the least of his concerns. Growing eyes in the back of his head his primary objective.

[47of74]

15. I'm just about that point when it comes to my niece

She's just over eight months old so it's a going to be a while but her Uncle 47 is going to look out for her.

[dalton99a]

16. The Honorable Ralph T. Strother (R)

https://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=21886&office=19368

[Progressive Jones]

19. Frat Scum. nt

[IronLionZion]

21. We should have never allowed him into our country

[Progressive Law]

22. As a criminal defense attorney, I think it should be noted...

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...that the District Attorney in this case also approved of this plea deal. Which likely means the DA had very serious doubts on the probability of securing a conviction at trial. Perhaps there is a problem with witness testimony, or the provable facts are "muddy." District Attorneys rarely agree to lenient plea deals if they think they have a good chance at securing a conviction. They want their "wins".

[47of74]

23. I note that she and the judge are Baylor alum

Something doesn’t pass the smell test here.