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Originally Posted by Royal Fanatic
I don't know if I'd say that he "skated". It sounds like the charges are appropriate. He didn't rape the girl. He picked up a telephone and requested a prostitute, and he was correctly charged with soliciting a prostitute. Since the girl turned out to be 16, he was also appropriately charged with having sex with a woman without her consent (since she can't give consent).
If the charges had been dropped, I'd agree that he skated. But to convict him of a felony and throw him in jail would have been pretty harsh.
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when you are facing all the charges he started off with and end up with misdemeanors and probation ... you skated.