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In reply to the discussion: Online outrage over Ohio rape case prompts city website [View all]mbperrin
(7,672 posts)40. Here's one for today that indicates DeWine is blowing it.
http://www.plunderbund.com/2013/01/05/attorney-general-dewine-incorrectly-suggests-witnesses-to-steubenville-rape-did-not-need-to-call-police/
Here is where DeWine messes up. He suggested that the witnesses like the teen in the video did nothing wrong. DeWine told reporters that Ohio law makes it illegal to aid or abet a crime, but observers of a crime arent always legally obliged to intervene. Its horrible. Its insensitive. Its hard to understand, but it may not be a crime, he said.
DeWine is wrong.
Ohio Law, Revised Code § 2921.22, provides that no person, knowing that a felony has been or is being committed, shall knowingly fail to report such information to law enforcement authorities. Violation of this law is a Fourth Degree Misdemeanor.
This law was adopted in 1974.
Oh, and here's the link to the video of DeWine saying this referenced in the above:
http://myfox28columbus.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wtte_investigators-examining-video-connected-steubenville-rape-case-21617.shtml
Here is where DeWine messes up. He suggested that the witnesses like the teen in the video did nothing wrong. DeWine told reporters that Ohio law makes it illegal to aid or abet a crime, but observers of a crime arent always legally obliged to intervene. Its horrible. Its insensitive. Its hard to understand, but it may not be a crime, he said.
DeWine is wrong.
Ohio Law, Revised Code § 2921.22, provides that no person, knowing that a felony has been or is being committed, shall knowingly fail to report such information to law enforcement authorities. Violation of this law is a Fourth Degree Misdemeanor.
This law was adopted in 1974.
Oh, and here's the link to the video of DeWine saying this referenced in the above:
http://myfox28columbus.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wtte_investigators-examining-video-connected-steubenville-rape-case-21617.shtml
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you are right. of course this is nto a first and wont be the last. but, i have never heard
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#37
Yeah, like you're going to get any information from those trying to cover it up
Tempest
Jan 2013
#58
Alexandria Goddard does say the rape occurred at a COACH's House, not the Prosecutor's house
happyslug
Jan 2013
#64
The Blog you cite, implies otherwise, but says the Prosecutor did nothing wrong
happyslug
Jan 2013
#69
Jane Hanlin is the mother of one of the witnesses to the rapes that took place at her house.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#76
She did recuse herself on August 27, 2012, the rape was reported in August 14, 2012
happyslug
Jan 2013
#77
Why did she meet with the victim and her family and discourage them from filing charges?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#78
So what is the Felony that the other teens SAW? And how do you prove "Knowing".
happyslug
Jan 2013
#60
Um....the victim doesn't need a defense. You would be a juror I would pick, though,
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#89
Does the web site address the issue of missing evidence while in the sheriff's possession?
Tempest
Jan 2013
#3
The fact that that's the main thing people there are worried about is telling, isn't it?
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#26
are local RW radio blowhards defending the rapists? - this is a more specific situation but
certainot
Jan 2013
#44
thanks- what a fucking asshole that guy is, but he is one of many making excuses like that.
certainot
Jan 2013
#71
WWVA1170 is a limbaugh hannity beck savage station AND piggybacks West Virginia Mountaineers and the
certainot
Jan 2013
#73
so I guess these residents don't mind their high school being a rapist's haven
SemperEadem
Jan 2013
#49