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AZ Judge to Sexual Assault Victim: "When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

Cienna Madrid
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I thought I was, but no. I was not ready to be horrified. AHHHHHH! AHHHHH!
Catherwood on September 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM Report this
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You have to give it to Arizona: they are going full steam ahead to become worse than Florida. No half measures here.

Unreal, though.
Theodore Gorath on September 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM Report this
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Just when you thought the Arizona crazies couldn't get any worse.

People are always dumping on the South, where I live, and they often do it with good reason. Thank goodness Arizona is around to show that we don't have a monopoly on crazies!
Clayton on September 13, 2012 at 8:19 AM Report this
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Oof... and it used to be Texas that we warned guests about...
Skye Blu on September 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM Report this
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This follows other right wing attempts to make rape a passable offense. From laws forcing things into women's vaginas to rewriting the definition of rape, Republicans and their ilk like rape. No, I take that back. They LOVE rape.
Pope Peabrain on September 13, 2012 at 8:29 AM Report this
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@4 That's what I was thinking. Maybe Texas is infecting Arizona?
TheMisanthrope on September 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM Report this
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Can we get some contact info to express our outrage?
olechka on September 13, 2012 at 8:32 AM Report this
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Send your outrage here:

upyourass@youareadumbfuck.com
on September 13, 2012 at 8:35 AM Report this
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Oh sweet Jane- I just was reading it aloud to someone and noticed the "judge" was also female... WTF is up with these misogynist AZ women?? I keep asking if this is some sort of subversive, uber-meta contest for last place?
Skye Blu on September 13, 2012 at 8:35 AM Report this
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The more time I spend in the company of judges, the less respect I have for their profession.

So many judges are actually so, so foolish.
Brendan Kiley on September 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM Report this
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The matriarchy in AZ is out of control.
seandr on September 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM Report this
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You're all ignoring that part of the AZ constitution that says female citizens have a duty to keep their vaginas out of the way of creepy sex offenders while they're trying to do their rapey acts.
Vadt on September 13, 2012 at 8:59 AM Report this
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200 N. San Francisco St.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
(928) 679-7551

Could not find an email, oddly enough, but only looked a few minutes. She did offer an apology by the way, but it is one of those bullshit right-wing "I am sorry you were offended" apologies.
Theodore Gorath on September 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM Report this
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Wait, wait, wait. I have the perfect solution. A woman may enter a bar and not be molested, as long as she is sitting down with a table between her and any ... ugh ... handsy and definitely unwanted attention.

The so-called judge OTOH is just a douche-baguette. Ugh, again.
Helenka (also a Canuck) on September 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM Report this
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(@10, and note this judge was put up for the job by Arizona's Judicial Nominating Committee, then APPOINTED by Jan Fucking Brewer. We complain in this state about how shitty it is that we elect our judges, but this is the shitty other flip side of the shitty coin. If we switch to appointments, a Governor McKenna, for example, would leave a legacy as full of Richard Sandersiness as he could manage.)

And from the linked original article, aaaaaaugh:
A woman who said she was a former intimate partner of Evans told the judge that the behavior was completely out of character for the defendant.
"His losses at this point go farther than anything that could be handed down here," she said.
The woman said Evans has lost his job and will likely lose his house because of it. She also said that because he's now a felon, he will have lost the ability to hunt, which numerous "hunting buddies" told the court was one of Evans' chief passions.
http://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-a…
gloomy gus on September 13, 2012 at 9:04 AM Report this
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Oh thank you, Cienna. For a second there I was almost feeling good about life and the world in general.
MacCrocodile on September 13, 2012 at 9:16 AM Report this
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He didn't worry much about how illegal it was to stick his hand up someone's skirt, so I don't see why he's going to worry about the illegality of felons goin' huntin'.
originalcinner on September 13, 2012 at 9:54 AM Report this
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@15, good point. The quality of judges is going to somewhat reflect the process. It shouldn't be a popularity contest, but appointment by Jan Brewer is worse than voting. It's not going to be popular in here, but a panel of the bar association would do a better job - not that the Republicans wouldn't find a way corrupt and wreck that process as well.
biffp on September 13, 2012 at 10:03 AM Report this
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You know the story of the woman in Turkey that shot her rapist 15 times and then cut his head off and threw it in the public square and yelled ""Here is the head of the man who played with my honor." Something like that is going to happen in the States. At some point a woman with a gun is going to flip out.
sisyphusgal on September 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM Report this
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@19, got a link to that?
Philly on September 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM Report this
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Wow, that's the sound of justice.

"When you blame others [for raping, murdering, robbing you], you give up your power to change."

"If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this [forcing their hands inside your twat kinda stuff] would have happened to you."

I always thought criminal activity was criminal activity. Of course, if this guy was just a Mexican it would be an entirely different matter.
dirac on September 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM Report this
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@ 20

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06…
originalcinner on September 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM Report this
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Brendan-I feel the same way. Which is a challenge since I'm an attorney who spends most of her time in a courtroom. The law is a bit like religion, I love the belief system but I have some real problems with its followers.
Dernin29 on September 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM Report this
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Here's another attack on women:

http://jezebel.com/5942957/hobby-lobby-c…

biffp on September 13, 2012 at 10:48 AM Report this
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Well, at least this makes me feel good about getting the Hell out of Arizona 20 years ago.
very bad homo on September 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM Report this
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Just another dismissal of drunk, rapey men as a natural phenomenon, like a flood or a tornado. If only that women had not put herself "in harm's way"...because as everyone knows, rapey men are a blind, agentless force of nature.
ignatz ratzkywatzky on September 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM Report this
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Ignatz @26: I borrowed your comment and used it on the link to this story on my Facebook. Thank you!
mr. herriman on September 13, 2012 at 1:10 PM Report this
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So let me make a prediction: Arizona is going to be the first state in the Union where a rapist will defend himself in court by claming the woman he allegedly raped kept grabbing his cock with her vagina over and over again!

And I guess we will see this happen sometime in 2013.
Cato the Younger Younger on September 13, 2012 at 1:11 PM Report this
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I'm not gonna do this. But I would probably get a nice smirk if I read in the paper that someone had said the exact same thing to this judge as they stood over his prone body and shot him in the knee cap.
Digitalboy on September 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM Report this
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Any DB who shoves his hand up MY skirt will learn a lesson about Broken Fingers and Sprained Wrists - and quite possibly bloody noses too... Some guys in some NYC night clubs learned some lessons the hard way back in the day :D
on September 13, 2012 at 1:28 PM Report this
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Just realized I used the male pronoun, and this was a female judge. I didn't catch that detail.

Stunning. Simply stunning.
Digitalboy on September 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM Report this
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@5, if it's love, is it still rape?

@15, he's going to lose his house? Well then, I guess we should send him to jail so he has a roof over his head.
Root on September 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM Report this
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See, this is exactly why "empathy" is a quality we should want in our judges.
I have always been... east coaster on September 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM Report this
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The probation-plus-community-service sentence handed down I could live with, seeing as the guy has already lost his job as a result of his crime. But really, not having to register as a sex offender? He sexually assaulted someone, and is therefore by most definitions a sex offender. How in the world does he get to stay off the list?
Of course, given the judge's propensity for blaming the victim, I'm saddened but not surprised.
venomlash on September 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM Report this
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@17 "He didn't worry much about how illegal it was to stick his hand up someone's skirt, so I don't see why he's going to worry about the illegality of felons goin' huntin'."

That only works if his excuse in _both_ instances is his excessive drinking.
on September 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM Report this
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So the AZ judge is coming out in favor of people beating any man who comes with in arms' reach of their female friends? Cool, next time I go to a bar in AZ (not at all likely to ever happen), I'll bring a cosh.
EclecticEel on September 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM Report this
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The only thing more disgusting than the pig and the judge are the libs on this thread who are pimping this as a reason to vote Marxist-Leninist. Osama Obama is raping this whole country every day, up the butt with no lube, and yet you libs love it and gleefully go ATM.
Retnan on September 16, 2012 at 3:34 PM Report this
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@38

if you go slowly and relax, it's not so bad.
LEE. on September 16, 2012 at 4:50 PM Report this
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Shame on the dishonorable Judge Hatch for blaming the victim of her sexual assault. SHAME. And the judge could use an English lesson, too.

Incorrect: "If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you."
Correct: "If you hadn't been there that night, none of this would have happened to you."
brendan on September 16, 2012 at 7:45 PM Report this
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More dirt on Judge Hatch: not sure what this is about exactly, but maybe she has some issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZoflDRx…
runswithnailclippers on September 16, 2012 at 9:12 PM Report this

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