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Thread ID: 14750 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-08-18
2004-08-18 23:29 | User Profile
Hampton University should be fresh hunting grounds for the monkey.
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ROME, Ga. -- A high school football star whose college career was derailed by a rape conviction will attend Hampton University in Virginia this fall on an athletic scholarship.
Marcus Dixon spent 15 months in prison after being convicted of aggravated child molestation, a felony, and statutory rape, a misdemeanor. He was accused of assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in a trailer behind Pepperell High School in February 2003, when he was 18.
A jury acquitted Dixon of rape, but he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the molestation charge. Some called the case an injustice because Dixon is black and the girl is white, although prosecutors denied that race played a role.
On May 3, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned the felony conviction and its 10-year sentence, and a lower court ruled that Dixon already had fulfilled his sentence for statutory rape.
An A student at Pepperell, Dixon had a scholarship to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., before his arrest. Vanderbilt rescinded its offer.
Dixon is already working out at defensive tackle in Hampton, about 20 miles north of Norfolk.
2004-08-18 23:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=MacDonald CSA]Some called the case an injustice because Dixon is black and the girl is white, although prosecutors denied that race played a role. [/QUOTE]
Oh that's right, race NEVER plays a role when it's black-against-white...
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2004-08-19 06:43 | User Profile
This is sick, the guy rapes a 15 year old virgin who did not even know him. The jury acquitted him of rape, because he can play football. The members of that jury should swing from an oak tree with the rapist dixon.
2004-08-19 12:41 | User Profile
The jury wanted this fine, gifted, determined, spectacular African-American athlete to pursue his dream of football glory without any hardships along the way. The O.J. Simpson-style juries and verdicts prevail.
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2004-08-19 12:57 | User Profile
Perhaps the Special Victims Unit (the NAACP) is right -- maybe there is a problem with 'institutional racism' in America.
2004-08-20 04:02 | User Profile
I Often think the sport needs to be banned.