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Originally posted by Rudey
I don't know why they didn't ask for another judge. Perhaps the lawyer was incompetent. Perhaps it didn't matter.
The comparison is that this man is a victim and was beaten severely. He could have up'd and left but then again a woman who stays with her husband regardless of whether he beats her could have up'd and left as well.
As for him being a Sigma already: "They also said Chambers was too early in his initiation process to be struck." Doesn't that mean he's going through some process to get wherever the funk you gotta get and be initiated "to be a Sigma"? The whole process and early means there is more he has to go through.
-Rudey
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Sorry I just read this thread today. Rudey if you had read other articles on the case you would have seen that both he and the person that he was with were being POST PLEDGED and had been intiated nearly a year before I think it was but didn't feel as though they were being respected. They were part of the chapter coming back to campus and had done things "by the book" and were not being "embraced" in the manner I guess they felt entitled to. Both he and another young man OPTED to go through a "process" in order to gain that respect.
As for the judge, the only person that would have potentially been done a disservice by him remaining on the case AND being a Sigma would have been the accuser not the accused. From all reports nothing inappropriate was done with evidence or statements to the jury so the judge really did what he was supposed to do. The problem comes in with the defense witnesses, as someone already said, who were frat brothers of the defendents and who MAY have been willing to provide alibis. But then again they could have swung by the frat house on the way to beat the boys behind so they technically weren't lying. Regardless, I think this is more of a problem within BGLO life than could have been reasonably represented in a court case with people unfamiliar with that culture.