How could this police officer guy only get 90 days for raping a handcuffed woman?

My guess is that Argenbright is a church-going Baptist, and so was the judge.

It was a misdemeanor. And he was a police officer. I am surprised he got that long a sentence.

Like what?
Mitigating circumstances?

I don’t know @rebbel. My brain is just screaming that there has to be a reason he only got 3 months for raping a helpless, handcuffed woman. Something we don’t know about.

Mutual consent. It was the handcuffs that got him any sentence at all.

That crossed my mind, krip, but I was afraid to bring it up. And it makes sense.
That and overall impropriety of it is what got him in trouble. He was wrong on so many levels.

Really not relevant but I knew a girl in high school who had a pair of handcuffs

Lol!!

Where is anyone getting “mutual consent” out of this story? He forced a woman who was in manacles on the way home from the hospital to have sex with him and then forced her to perform oral sex. That’s what the article says.

Where did I get mutual consent? From the light sentence, of course! What other explanation could there possibly be???

I hope you’re being ironic.

I don’t find any other reports on this that give any more information. My guess is that there was circumstantial evidence only and that he took a plea deal. Personally, I think he should get 90 days in jail after being castrated.

He is a pig, the pigs and the courts are in cahoots with each other and are all corrupt.
So no surprise there.
#ACAB

If she had been released from the hospital, and he was driving her home, why was she in handcuffs?

It’s not just the handcuffs, @kritiper. Even if you’re right, and it was mutual consent, was she in a place, mentally, to give such consent? It goes back to this question.

Looking at the article, she got drunk, faked her way into the ER and tried stealing stuff from the ER. The hospital called the cops and agreed not to press charges if they would take her home. Her being handcuffed might have something to do with her response to being tossed from the ER. Her being handcuffed isn’t the odd part given that story. But the guy’s car had a GPS that they could track and it had a stop along the way from the hospital to her home that coincided with her story. He didn’t call in anything that would have justified the stop. It might be that he was stopping to clarify where her house was or he could have been raping her. I don’t think it was an innocent stop. Either way, I suspect there was not enough solid evidence to convict him of rape so the DA offered him a deal and he took it.

This guy wasn’t a cop & he raped a girl while she was dying from a drug overdose then hid her body after she died, & he was sentenced to less than 3 years.

^^^^ Why can’t we hear or read what the judge had to say?

Any better ???

No. That doesn’t tell me what the judge was thinking.

@Dutchess_lll I don’t think the question specifically specified, so I can’t address your POV.
Also, you shouldn’t assume that the cop was guilty, which it appears you’re doing, because that discriminates and is un-American.
Obviously, we aren’t privy to the whole story.

@kritiper I can assume he’s guilty of being morally reprehensible by taking advantage of his position of authority to abuse a compromised woman because this is Fluther, not a court of law, and my assumption will have no effect on his life.

This was a plea deal. He pled guilty to two misdemeanors. Misdemeanors generally mean less than a year in jail, not prison.

@kritiper We can assume he is guilty be cause he admitted his guilt!

@zenvelo We can assume he is guilty be cause he admitted his guilt!

That might NOT be a true statement. As I pointed out in another thread, lawyers now days recommend that their clients plead guilty in exchange for a guaranteed lighter sentence by convincing them that they “might” go to jail for a lengthy sentence once a jury is involved. It does NOT mean that they are truly “guilty” just convinced that they “might be found” guilty unless the lawyer suddenly becomes a genius!!! I see it as lawyers being too lazy or greedy to do the actual work to get their client a “not guilty” verdict.

Cops have to be WORSE than “morally reprehensible” in order to get ANY jail time. In this case, we’ll NEVER know for sure as to WHY he didn’t get a stiffer sentence. Assuming that he’s guilty or that she had mutually agreed don’t even figure in to the equation.