Atl. Cop's Rape Trial Set for July

This case doen't add up. No police officer would video tape evidence against himself with a person he knew. My gut is this may be an innocent man. In any case i think bond is warranted with strict guidelines. Once while driving a cab up north(jitney). A sister of a high school friend, informed me that while i was in college that her sister had passed away. We became friends. One day she appears at my moms' house wanting to date me. I declined because i still wanted to marry my college girlfriend. I excused myself saying i had to go to work(drive). I took her home, she asked me to walk her to her apartment, go inside and make sure it was safe.( how stupid can college grads really be). Once inside she said check my room please before you go. Once there she made advances to put me on the bed. I told her "i told you i have to go to work". Forcing my way to the door and out she became very angry. She chased me back to the car screaming. Everyone on the street was laughing their heads off. The situation turned very serious the next day. She went to the police station and filed an attempted rape complaint. The only thing that saved me was God of course, my lack of criminal history and good reputation in my ome town and the fact she had done this same thing to three other men before me. She turned out to be a out-patient mental patient.

This cop may not be one of Atlanta's finest, but this rape accusation sounds like a set-up.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Sounds like a set up to me.

This is a bad cop, this is not his only issues and trip to internal affairs. He does not belong in the blue uniform, strips would be more fitting.

What makes him a bad cop? The fact that he has a woman lying about him raping her? You really think he belongs in jail because some woman who's out for money is lying? Wise up pal.

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What makes him a bad cop? The fact that he has a woman lying about him raping her? You really think he belongs in jail because some woman who's out for money is lying? Wise up pal.

I did not say he belonged in jail for this incident, he has an OPS record a mile long. Threatening people at a bar off duty with a firearm, filing false police reports, excessive force, you name it. The fact is if it were you or me in a bar threatening someone with a gun, we would be in prison.

Ummmmm, where did you see he has a record for filing false police reports and excessive force? And from what I understand, he was meeting people who worked at the bar for drinks when they were closed. From what I understand, he took his gun out and said "this is a stick up" while he was there drinking with the workers. Is he a perfect person, hell no! But you are saying a lot of factually incorrect things about him. No one EVER deserves to be put in jail for something they didn't do.

I don't know but i got a strong feeling. This case is a young man who does a lot of unwise unthought about things. But he's probably no rapist. I don't even think he should be fired. Maybe assigned a non community contact or impact job to spend some time to mature. In any case when if he's aquitted he'll probably move on to some other work or other dept. Sin got hold of this fella and like it does us all it tore him up. I hope his case is a lesson to others to play it cool and don't live the sinful life.

John Doe wrote:

This is a bad cop, this is not his only issues and trip to internal affairs. He does not belong in the blue uniform, strips would be more fitting.

Death penalty would be cool, too.

Send him to North Ga and they'll show him some true southern hospitality.

Farces wrote:

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Death penalty would be cool, too.

Last time I looked, the supreme court thinks differently. They say that rape of an adult women does not call for capital punishment.

John Doe wrote:

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Last time I looked, the supreme court thinks differently. They say that rape of an adult women does not call for capital punishment.

I hold police to a higher standard because they are entrusted with forcing the law. Ergo, it is probably Constitutional to give them greater punishments.

I agree, the should be held to a higher level. You and I have this talk all the time. You know darn well I think bad officers should be punished. I just believe that the harsh punishment should be within the confines of the constitution.

To my knowledge it has never been ruled by either Georgia or the US Supreme Court as to whether a popo, as distinct from a non-popo, can get death for doing a rape. I think, if that case came up, the Supreme Court would rule in favor of death because popo's are held to a higher standard of conduct under the 5th, 8th and 14th Amendments than non-popo's.
Maybe the Court can hear the issue if Officer Lamar Gavin appeals his death penalty in his case. he would have the right to appeal on Constitutional grounds of course. I would just hope, for the sake of justice, that he would lose.

Further to previous:

One reason it is worse when a popo, as opposed to a non-popo does a rape is that when a non-popo does a rape, then you can report that to police, confident that they will not dismiss you out of hand.

On the other hand, when a policeman does a rape, so has to worry about popo's looking out for their own. That makes her suffereing worse and the popo-rapist's conduct worse.

Farces wrote:

To my knowledge it has never been ruled by either Georgia or the US Supreme Court as to whether a popo, as distinct from a non-popo, can get death for doing a rape. I think, if that case came up, the Supreme Court would rule in favor of death because popo's are held to a higher standard of conduct under the 5th, 8th and 14th Amendments than non-popo's.
Maybe the Court can hear the issue if Officer Lamar Gavin appeals his death penalty in his case. he would have the right to appeal on Constitutional grounds of course. I would just hope, for the sake of justice, that he would lose.

It would not get to the either court because Georgia law does not allow for the death penalty in rape cases either.

John Doe wrote:

<quoted text> It would not get to the either court because Georgia law does not allow for the death penalty in rape cases either.

well, it SHOULD when the victim is a child or the rapist is a popo. In these situations, the death penalty would help:

- clean the gene pool; and

- send a good message to other woould be popo rapists and child rapers.

Farces wrote:

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well, it SHOULD when the victim is a child or the rapist is a popo. In these situations, the death penalty would help:
- clean the gene pool; and
- send a good message to other woould be popo rapists and child rapers.

I don't disagree with you, but even you you lobbied for a law to allow that, it won't apply to this individual. We will be lucky if any death row inmates are put to death in the near future depending upon the Supreme Court ruling into the administration of the death penalty. There is one state that allows the death penalty for raping a child, which is Louisiana. The Supreme Court held that is was constitutional in State v. Wilson

John Doe wrote:

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I don't disagree with you, but even you you lobbied for a law to allow that, it won't apply to this individual...

Yeah, I guess I think it is time to start lobbying for a law that saya:

popo rapes, then popo dies.

same with popo theives and popo drunk drivers. The sooner we get these laws on the books the cleaner the gene pool will be!

good luck in your endeavors. Perhaps we should hold all people in positions of trust to that high standard, like teachers, corrections officers, politicians, and Military officers. Lets forget that all men are created equal in the eyes of the court.