Cory Batey sentenced to 15 years in Vanderbilt rape case

[alp227]

Source: The Tennessean

Cory Batey, a former Vanderbilt University football player who raped an unconscious woman in 2013, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday. It was the minimum term possible for the crimes.

Judge Monte Watkins said he'd weighed thousands of cases and in each considers a sentence that was fair for the victim, the defendant and their families.

"It is one of the saddest cases that I have ever encountered," he said. "And I’ve been in the legal business for 32 years.

"All of the defendants in this case basically have life sentences," he said, saying each would be on the sex offender registry for life after being released from prison.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/07/14/cory-batey-faces-least-15-years-friday-sentencing/86953944/

[forgotmylogin]

1. Hm. Wonder what the difference between these two cases is...

One certainly didn't set the standard for the other.

Cory Batey


Brock Turner:


http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/

(CNN)Widespread outrage has erupted over a California judge's decision to give a former Stanford University swimmer a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Critics are blasting the decision as far too lenient.

Prosecutors had asked that Brock Turner be sentenced to six years in prison for the January 2015 assault.
The controversial sentence was followed by the release of two dueling letters to the judge about the case that have been widely shared and sparked further outcry: one from the victim, who described her ordeal in 12 searing pages; and another from Turner's father, who dismissed his son's crime as "20 minutes of action."

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. You know Black people can't swim!!!

[forgotmylogin]

5. That must be it! +1

n/t

[Nay]

3. Just what I was thinking. Especially since Turner's assault was witnessed by

two passersby, who chased and restrained him for the police.

[NaturalHigh]

4. "It was the minimum term possible for the crimes."

Different state, different laws. Don't let that get in the way of a good story, though.

[forgotmylogin]

6. I guess Brock Turner wasn't one of the "thousands" of cases the judge reviewed.

Not that I think either of them should gotten off lightly, just for the record.

[NaturalHigh]

7. Considering he's a judge a few thousand miles away from Stanford...

that's probably a safe bet.

[Tempest]

9. The judge in the Turner case ignored the minimum term and gave him much less time. n/t

[LisaL]

24. Judge" followed the law."

"The prosecution can only challenge a sentence that is unlawful. In this case, the judge followed the law, and the recommendation of the probation department, and did not abuse his legal discretion."

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29993496/q-stanford-sex-case-sentence-will-da-appeal

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. Yeah ... Different State and different laws, explains the decade and a half difference in sentencing

Yeah, that must be it!

Another liberal that admits the existence of racial discrimination ... but, can't seem to find actual cases of it ... ever.

Our alliance remains strong.

[LanternWaste]

12. I'd pretend comparing and contrasting is a "good story" as well if my bias and narrative depended on

I'd pretend comparing and contrasting is a "good story" as well if my bias and narrative depended on trivializing it as such...

[FLPanhandle]

15. Why does any judge have the leeway to ignore the minimum sentence?

California needs to change that.

[LisaL]

25. There seem to be efforts to do that.

"What began as public outrage over a six-month sentence for the attempted rape and assault of an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on Stanford's campus has become a proposed state law demanding a mandatory minimum sentence of three years for similar crimes."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-bill-proposes-mandatory-sentence-wake-brock-turner-case-n598921

[Rex]

22. Yeah you know that had little to do with it, but nice try.

[Igel]

17. Rape versus sexual assault, for one.

Batey was charged with aggravated rape. Brock wasn't.

There was evidence that Batey stuck his johnson into the victim. No evidence Brock's johnson was even at attention. He used fingers. And didn't wash his hands before handling.

Batey didn't cooperate. Brock did.

Batey's accuser was conscious. Brock's wasn't.

Batey was caught on video helping to move the girl. He was a team player. Brock wasn't caught on video and wasn't part of a team. Everything points to her getting to the scene of the crime on her own, so when she passed out is a guess.


Then as other have pointed out, there's that trivial matter of different states, different judges, different laws. We could add that they had different lawyers, as well.

But, yeah, all of those things--different charges, different laws, different courts, different amounts of evidence, different crimes ... ORM, only race matters. I look at the cases, read the text, and I notice a lot of differences. Another might only look at the pictures and see one difference.

Now, it's one thing to ignore the role of race. That's a bad thing because it allows oppression and unequal treatment to continue.

It's another thing to ignore the role of everything except race. That's also a bad thing. This is another one of those "Sterling and Roof" comparisons where the analogy utterly fails after "So the cops encounter this guy," but because people already believe what the analogy is intended to show believe that the analogy must show what's intended.

[forgotmylogin]

19. I sort of get it.

I hope the interpretation wasn't that I thought Batey should have gotten *less* time. It was that Brock should have gotten *more*.

I would also hope that "sexual assault of an unconscious person" should be serious despite the extent. It shouldn't come down to "Oh he only digitally fondled her so we're not going to punish him too severely..." The intent of a perpetrator who would sexually assault an unconscious person should be what is being punished, not the extent to which the act was carried out.

[Skittles]

20. Brock should definitely have gotten more time

his sentence is a DISGRACE

[Doctor_J]

18. the white perpetrator in this case will get at least 15 years as well.

also this girl was drugged, where the California victim drank herself into a coma. and this girl was raped, sodomized, and urinated on, while the one in California was fondled.

hard to believe there are duers thinking that 15 years for a rapist is too harsh. maybe some sympathy for the victim instead of the rapist is in order.

[Skittles]

21. not sure what the difference is regarding states of consciousness

if someone is not capable of giving consent, what difference does it matter WHY?

[Doctor_J]

26. so if I drank until I passed out on the street and someone lifted my wallet, that would be the same

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as if he knocked me unconscious and took my wallet? come on.

this crime was orders of magnitude more violent than the one at stanford. the white perp in the case in the op is likely open to drug charges and a kidnapping charge on top of the sexual components. the two cases are very different and should be treated as such.

eta: this attack was also premeditated, judging from the roofie.

[Skittles]

27. yes, the crime of theft IS THE SAME

WTF! This is classic BLAME THE VICTIM mentality.

[knightmaar]

8. At least they've learned.

And they don't regale us with: what position he played; how many sacks/yards rushing he had in his last season etc. etc.

[Iggo]

10. Nice catch.

[Skeeter Barnes]

13. Well, he played at Vanderbilt so it's unlikely there would be anything noteworthy about his

performance on the field.

[alp227]

16. Batey never got to suit up for Vanderbilt in the first place!

He was only an incoming freshman when he was arrested.

[FLPanhandle]

14. Good sentence

Glad to see a judge applying the appropriate punishment for rape.

[LisaL]

23. It was a minimum mandatory sentence this judge could have given him.