Too rich to jail?

[ElNono]

Du Pont heir received no jail time after rape conviction

Robert Richards IV, an heir to the du Pont family fortune, served no jail time even though he plead guilty to the fourth-degree rape of his 3-year-old daughter in 2008, according to court documents.

...

According to a February 2009 sentencing order in the criminal rape case, Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden concluded that Robert Richards IV “will not fare well” in prison. Jurden originally sentenced Richards to eight years in prison, then suspended that punishment in favor of Level II probation and ordered the heir — who is supported by a family trust — to pay $4,395 to the Delaware Violent Crimes Compensation Board.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/03/31/du-pont-heir-received-no-jail-time-after-rape-conviction/

[Wild Cobra]

How many threads on this do we need?

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230876

[ElNono]

Well, I don't visit the Club. If you don't feel like discussing it here, then just don't post.

[Wild Cobra]

Well, I don't visit the Club. If you don't feel like discussing it here, then just don't post.
LOL...

It's stupid to double post.

[ElNono]

LOL...

It's stupid to double post.

It's the first time I post that story...

[Wild Cobra]

The story is already two days old. maybe you should have checked if it existed already?

If you wish to participate, go to the other thread as I'm bet most participating will not in both.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

WC seems really hell bent on defending the honor of a child rapist.

[Wild Cobra]

WC seems really hell bent on defending the honor of a child rapist.

I'm sorry you think that.

[Winehole23]

case must've been pretty weak for the state to offer 4th degree with no mandatory jail time. guy sounds like a fucker, but this does have a whiff of a marital dispute about it. the unique considerations are very odd, though. never heard of a child rapist not sent to the place because the judge was afraid he couldn't hack it.

[Wild Cobra]

case must've been pretty weak for the state to offer 4th degree with no mandatory jail time. guy sounds like a fucker, but this does have a whiff of a marital dispute about it. the unique considerations are very odd, though. never heard of a child rapist not sent to the place because the judge was afraid he couldn't hack it.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230876&p=7220414&viewfull=1#post7220414

[TeyshaBlue]

LOL...

It's stupid to double post.

Shut the fuck up.

[ElNono]

The story is already two days old. maybe you should have checked if it existed already?

I checked. It didn't exist here.

[ElNono]

case must've been pretty weak for the state to offer 4th degree with no mandatory jail time. guy sounds like a fucker, but this does have a whiff of a marital dispute about it. the unique considerations are very odd, though. never heard of a child rapist not sent to the place because the judge was afraid he couldn't hack it.

yeah, the judge's reasoning just really doesn't make sense.

[Nbadan]

to pay $4,395 to the Delaware Violent Crimes Compensation Board.


:vomit::vomit:

Even the fine is a joke...the state AG needs to look at this shit...

[Nbadan]

http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Robert-Richards-IV-240x300.jpg

....douche....

[Nbadan]

According to the lawsuit filed by Richards' ex-wife, he admitted to assaulting his infant son in addition to his daughter between 2005 and 2007. Richards was initially indicted on two counts of second-degree child rape, felonies that translate to a 10-year mandatory jail sentence per count. He was released on $60,000 bail while awaiting his charges.

Richards hired one of the state's top law firms and was offered a plea deal of one count of fourth-degree rape charges -- which carries no mandatory minimum prison sentencing. He accepted, and admitted to the assault.

In her sentence, Jurden said he would benefit from participating in a sex offenders rehabilitation program rather than serving prison time.

Delaware Public Defender Brendan J. O'Neill told The News Journal that it was "extremely rare" for an individual to fare well in prison. "Prison is to punish, to segregate the offender from society, and the notion that prison serves people well hasn't proven to be true in most circumstances," he said, adding that the light sentence for the member of the one percent raised questions about “how a person with great wealth may be treated by the system.” (Though perhaps it provides more answers than questions.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/robert-richards-rape_n_5060386.html

We are truly back in the Guilded age....

[Nbadan]

This case is 5 years old, but has never been disclosed publicly...


Robert H. Richards IV, 47, on probation after pleading guilty in 2008 to fourth-degree rape of his daughter, has never been charged with crimes against his son. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Superior Court provides in-depth details about a child rape case
that did not receive media attention and Delaware authorities never disclosed publicly.

tell me again how the M$M works?

[Nbadan]

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/db944b6394da126881b293059235952fb99029f5/c=123-0-674-413&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/Wilmington/NG/2014/03/18/houseforprint.jpg
Robert H. Richards IV paid $1.8 million for his 5,800-square-foot stone and stucco mansion on Summit Lane near Winterthur Museum in Greenville.(Photo: ROBERT CRAIG/THE NEWS JOURNAL)


The revelations came, the lawsuit claims, while Richards was taking a lie detector test, ordered in an attempt to get him to be more forthcoming about his sexual history. Richards told the examiner he "was very concerned that something happened with his son, but that he has repressed the memories.'" He told the examiner he worried that his acts were "similar to what happened with his daughter," the lawsuit said. "But he promised that whatever I did to my son, I will never do it again."

That September, his probation officer informed Superior Court that during the polygraph, "the possibility of sexual contact" with his son "came to light," according to the officer's progress report, filed with the lawsuit.

In a 2012 progress report, another probation officer reminded the court that "there are concerns about Mr. Richards' past offenses concerning his son."

The proven abuse of his daughter and alleged assault of his son has caused his children "long-term injuries," the lawsuit filed Tuesday said, perhaps including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual dysfunction and shame.

The lawsuit claims Richards raped his daughter, now 11, in 2005 when she was 3. Several times, he entered her bedroom at night while she slept and penetrated her with his fingers while masturbating, said the lawsuit, which includes documents from the criminal case.

Richards told the girl "to keep what he had done to her a secret," but in October 2007, she told her grandmother, Donna Burg, who informed Tracy Richards, the child's mother, the lawsuit said. The girl was taken to her pediatrician, whom she told about the abuse, and New Castle County police arrested Richards that December.

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2014/03/18/du-pont-heir-faces-child-sex-lawsuit/6565107/

[Nbadan]

You can sign the online petition to fire Judge Jurden

http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/petition_images/petition/063/873572-1396379956-wide.jpg

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/873/572/063/fire-judge-jan-jurden

[Nbadan]

The Judge is looking at a promotion to Chief Counsel ...


For that reason, attention has also fallen on Jan Jurden, another Democrat and a judge on the state's Superior Court in Wilmington. Jurden, who declined to comment, has some corporate law experience and locals see her as a possibility for either chief justice or as a replacement for Strine if he is elevated.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/us-delaware-courts-analysis-idUSBRE99203N20131003

[russellgoat]

WAAHH WAHHH ALL RICH PEOPLE ARE EVIL AND THEY ARE ALWAYS GUILTY WAHH WAAH

[Nbadan]

WAAHH WAHHH ALL RICH PEOPLE ARE EVIL AND THEY ARE ALWAYS GUILTY WAHH WAAH

:lol

He confessed as part of his plea deal...reading is fundamental....

[Nbadan]

A du Pont heir who raped his daughter was supposed to complete an intensive treatment program at an inpatient psychiatric clinic in Massachusetts as a condition of a sentence that allowed him to avoid prison time.

But he never did, court records show.

Superior Court Judge Jan R. Jurden ordered probation for Robert H. Richards IV in February 2009, on the condition that he be accepted for treatment at the expensive McLean Hospital near Boston, according to a transcript of the sentencing. Jurden agreed to probation only after the prosecutor argued the state typically would demand prison time in such child abuse cases, but was willing to accept probation because of the therapy Richards would receive at the out-of-state clinic.

"If the court is not inclined to send him to the Massachusetts program, then the state would be asking for some period of jail that the court would feel would be appropriate under the circumstances," prosecutor Renee Hrivnak said during the Feb. 6, 2009 hearing.

More at link

Read more: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2014/04/08/du-pont-heir-finish-treatment-records-show/7475045/

[ElNono]

Affluenza...

[spurraider21]

Affluenza...
:lol

[boutons_deux]

Affluenza Strikes Again: Billionaire Johnson Heir Gets Sweet Deal After Confessing to Sexual Assault


When it comes to justice in America, it pays to be a billionaire. In the latest case of affluenza, a condition that has struck not just rich people who commit crimes without remorse, but also the justice system which seems blinded to their guilt, a Johnson heir received a slap on the wrist despite confessing to sexual assault.

Back in 2011, the stepdaughter of Samuel Curtis Johnson III told police that Johnson was ‘ a sex addict (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/billionaire-heir-sc-johnson-fortune-accused-molesting-stepdaughter/story?id=13223059)‘ and that he had been repeatedly touching her inappropriatey from the time she was 12 years old. Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/07/3446226/billionaire-sexual-assault-four-months-jail/) reported that the victim "told her mother about the abuse in order to protect her younger sister, and Johnson confessed when the mother confronted him.”

Of course, the heir's massive well-funded legal team swung into action, and according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/johnson07-b99285933z1-262145461.html), Johnson plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct rather than the felony sexual assault on a minor child charges he originally faced in 2011 (http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/118595529.html).

The prosecution was hampered by the fact that neither the victim nor her mother was willing to testify.

( no doubt victim intimidated by prospect of the defense dragging mother and daughter through all kids slimey, slanderish mud for weeks )

But still hoping to get the serial rapist behind bars for a year, Assistant District Attorney Robert Repischak asked (http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/johnson07-b99285933z1-262145461.html) the judge to apply the maximum sentence for the hugely reduced charges, while. Johnson’s attorney, Michael F. Hart vehemently argued that maximum prison terms should only be for “maximum defendants,” whatever that means. Hart said that Johnson leads a "productive life" and had never been in trouble with the law before.

Surprise, surprise, the judge agreed with the defense. Milwaukee’s Channel 4 News reported (http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Wisconsin-billionaires-charges-dropped-from-felony-to-misdemeanor-262176431.html) that

Circuit Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz got down right cozy with the defendant, talking about the Johnson family's importance to the community and saying “you could not grow up in this community and not know some of the people involved in this case.”

Judge Gasiorkiewicz also opined that he found the state’s request “troubling” in that he has never seen a first-time offender receive the maximum sentence for his crimes. :lol

He sentenced Johnson to four months in jail and a fine of $6,000. Hmmm. That's going to really take a bite out of those billions.

Felony charges of the sort Johnson faced have resulted in a prison sentences of up to 40 years.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/affluenza-strikes-again-billionaire-johnson-heir-gets-sweet-deal-after-confessing?akid=11896.187590.Po0b4A&rd=1&src=newsletter1000956&t=19

[Wild Cobra]

Or...

Is it another case where it is cheaper for a rich person to settle rather than waste time in court?


neither the victim nor her mother was willing to testify

I'd say it's the prosecution that got the sweet deal!

[boutons_deux]

Or...

Is it another case where it is cheaper for a rich person to settle rather than waste time in court?

I'd say it's the prosecution that got the sweet deal!


the defense certainly got paid with a very sweet sum.

Rape defenders criminalize, slander the victims. Not many raped women are willing to be slimed and slandered for being raped. "She asked for it" "she didn't resist enough" "she liked it" etc, etc

[boutons_deux]

Here's how you Repug/conservative/misogynists/hate radio talk about rape

Washington Post Columnist Claims Being A College Rape Victim Is Now A ‘Coveted Status’ (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/09/3446557/washington-post-college-rape/)http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/09/3446557/washington-post-college-rape/

[Wild Cobra]

the defense certainly got paid with a very sweet sum.

Rape defenders criminalize, slander the victims. Not many raped women are willing to be slimed and slandered for being raped. "She asked for it" "she didn't resist enough" "she liked it" etc, etc
From news accounts, we will never know the truth. It could just as easily be someone looking for a payday from the rich. they get targeted you know.

[boutons_deux]

yep, that's the other right-wing/misogynist/Rape Caucus slander, she's lying, she's framing him.

[Wild Cobra]

yep, that's the other right-wing/misogynist/Rape Caucus slander, she's lying, she's framing him.

I'm smart enough not to take a position on this. It's obvious are are dumb enough to take a position.

[Winehole23]

I'm smart enough not to take a position on this. It's obvious are are dumb enough to take a position.

Free association and open-mindedness, I guess:


It could just as easily be someone looking for a payday from the rich. they get targeted you know.


I'd say it's the prosecution that got the sweet deal!

[Wild Cobra]

Free association and open-mindedness, I guess:
Sure, I have some assumptions in place here. However, I'm not set on believing what I say "could" be the case. With nobody testifying against him, a conviction was real unlikely. The plea gave the prosecution a win, and probably a financial settlement for the alleged victim as well. The accused stayed out of a lengthy court trial.