Reply #66: Good question. And if there was sex & she's 12, it's statutory rape.

[Divernan]

If a client admitted guilt to me, I would do my best to get him to accept a plea bargain, and to negotiate the best plea I could for him - get him into the least violent prison for the time he had to serve; get him therapy, etc. Clinton did plea bargain the guy. However, I would not have squandered the law clinic's money and my time as if a man's life was at stake, and thereby deprived other clients, such as kids not receiving child support, or kids being abused, or elderly people being ripped off by shady businesses, etc. (the kind of cases I saw in the law school clinic I worked with).

Ya know, when you find not just semen, but blood in the vagina of a 12 year old girl within 2 hours of these men admitting they were with her and giving her alcohol, there is no question that at the very least it was - ready for this - STATUTORY RAPE! This older guy tried to claim that only the 15 year old boy raped the girl, but this older guy supplied the truck and the liquor, and there was a witness that the older guy raped her.