• Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Can you imagine that defence for other crimes

    You’re honour my client should be released because he was only a bank robber for 2 minutes while in the bank. And as for being a conspirator he didn’t do much talking.

    Your honour my client was only a “rapist” while attacking Miss Sonso and that only lasted 5 minutes. Prior to that he was merely a pedestrian as he followed her. An innocent citizen

  • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “Your honor, my client only raped her for 3 minutes.”

    “Your honor, my client was only murdering him for 4 minutes.”

    “Your honor, my client was only driving under the influence for 10 minutes.”

    “Your honor, my client only robbed the bank of $4000.”

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Well HE doesn’t go by Brock Turner the rapist. He certainly wishes we’d stop calling him Brock Turner the rapist. But we’ll never stop calling him Brock Turner the rapist, because Brock Turner the rapist is a rapist.

        If we had to stop calling him something, we’d stop calling him Brock Turner before we stopped calling him the rapist.

        Because Brock Turner the rapist deserves to be remembered as a rapist, and nothing more