Sparty Football Players Plead Guilty To "Seducing an Unmarried Woman"
Sometimes reality truly is stranger than fiction. Ingham County prosecutors let Corley, King and Vance plead guilty to a law from the 1800's that is still on the books.
If this law was enforced daily - think most guys in college would be prosecuted at one time or another.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2018/06/06/michigan-state-football-players-sentencing/35754021/
Is this a joke?
Nope - though people would argue that the justice system in Ingham County for Sparty athletes is certainly a joke.
....au contraire, teh justice system in ingham county for staee athletes is a BONUS!!! Worst possible offense for any crime is littering!
Disgusting and despicable university there. Especially with that news from the other day.
Is this a reference to the prof who admitted to corrupting the moral purity of an unmarried house pet?
We don't know the dog was unmarried.
It's still only the 4th or 5th worst thing about Holt.
And it still definitely has nothing to do with the fact that my ex lives in Holt.
Holt is garbage. It has no redeeming qualities.
Well you can’t spell Holt with the C-u-n-t, amirite?
plus I heard that dog had its collar two sizes too small and licked its ass in front of the professor, as far as I’m concerned it got what it wanted.
So would they have been exonerated completely if they thought she was married?
So seducing a married woman is legal?
IANAL, nor do I know what archaic 19th C laws might still be on the books, but presumably the married woman would be charged with adultery, and the man with fornication.
or sodomy, in your case
Spellcheck is your friend!
Quick MgoLawyers we need your help! What the hell is this law? And furthermore...couldn’t any guy get charged with this in one form or another?
Case study - a college girl dies in a kiln explosion in pottery class. If you tried to score with her roommate by pretending to be her mourning boyfriend - could you be prosecuted?
Fawn Leibowitz? Such a tragedy
"She was going to make me a pot..."
Shelly Dubinski....She sure filled out that sweater nicely!!!
Just when you think you can't be more disgusted with Sparty this happens
I think they hit rock bottom with the basset hound rape
Laws should have expiration dates. The good ones get renewed, & the bad (ridiculous) ones fall off the books.
My favorite two strange laws from yesteryear are both from NYC.
It is illegal to greet someone by placing your thumb to your nose and wiggling your fingers.
It is illegal to walk down the street on Sunday with an ice cream cone in your pocket.
What is fantastic is both of these were apparently enough of a problem to warrant passage of laws to prevent them. And they worked, as neither are common today!
Not surprised the MSU athletic department made sure this went away. Without Nassar none of these guys would have been kicked off the team. Even though these guys are off the team you can be sure MSU did not want Blackwell or some other current or former staff member to be deposed on the record or testify in open court.
I find it perplexing that you believe the MSU Athletic Department holds some sort of imperious sway over the Prosecutor's Office. You may want to ask William of Occam if he has a spare razor he can lend you.
Back when I was a prosecutor, "weird" plea bargains like this usually meant a weak case or a complaining witness who balked at the prospect of taking it to trial. I'm not familiar with the finer details of this one, so my comments are meant in a more general sense; certainly not speculating about this case specifically.
Here's an interesting article on the psychology of conspiracy theory belief... hope you don't find it too familiar.
“Conspiracy theories are for losers,” says Joseph Uscinski, associate professor of political science at the University of Miami and co-author of the 2014 book American Conspiracy Theories. Uscinski stresses that he uses the term literally, not pejoratively. “People who have lost an election, money or influence look for something to explain that loss.”
Welcome to the MGoBlog board, Stuart!
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Eeeuuwwwe! Why does it suddenly smell like cat pee?
http://lansingcitypulse.com/print-article-12903-permanent.html
Apparently sometimes winners do too ...
You cannot be serious... Yes, the folks here are unabashed UM fans, but the heaps evidence for prosecutorial misconduct related to MSU athletes is no conspiracy theory.
It is a conspiracy theory and frankly it's absurd on its face. Don Izzo and Godfather Dantonio have the prosecutors on the take, huh? Do you know how fucking stupid that sounds? How stupid it is?
It's truly disheartening (in a bigger "human condition" kind of sense) to witness the lengths you'll go to mentally, to try and process the fact that these two men have had your number more often than not on the athletics field.
Do you know how stupid you sound?
I find it perplexing you actually believed justice was served in this case. I have a hard time believing if these kids weren't athletes, it would have led to the same verdict.
Among strange laws still on the book in Michigan or in cities around Michigan, this gem from Rochester:
All bathing suits must have been inspected by the head of police.
Nice work if you can get it, I guess.
It's like the kid who invented the FBI = Female Body Inspector grew up and brought it to life.
Bikini inspection line, ladies step right up. No swimming until I'm done, though motorboating is allowed
East Lansing will be changing its name to the Republic of Gilead.
I have my wife to thank for catching that reference.
Seducing an unmarried woman? We need FauxMo to weigh in on this.
Wow, this is bad.
I saw this a little while ago and got a pit in my stomach as a father of a a little girl and as a law enforcement officer. I get working with the community but the clear evidence of priveledge in this case just let these young people believe that this behavior is not a problem.
Well this one really takes the egg! This, too, happened to me in the summer of 1843. Too whip up the happenings, I saw a real fine drapery misses from across the way and tried to court her with a few bricky glances. I told her we could be all filly and foul, as I was about five or seven by then and didnt have my whits about me! She then mistook me for a gal-sneak and I found myself in quite the collie shangles that evening.
Glad I'm not the only one!
+1
incredible
Bully!
That, sir, is a work of art. Well done.
Amazing. Not surprising, but amazing. Rape gets downgraded to a charge no one has ever heard of. Only in corrupt places does shit like that happen.
I seduce unmarried women all the time......
Information about these players' plea deal is not new. We learned about it a few months ago. It apparently relates to an old law wherein "seduction" is not meant by its most frequent, modern use but as a position along the spectrum between rape and assault. Apparently, at least in Michigan, it is still widely used in these situations when a rape case appears warranted but its prosecution is not a slam dunk.
The sparty way. And those that want that life still commit there