Judge Tosses Teen Rape Conviction, Says 148 Days in Jail is ‘Plenty of Punishment’

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Judge Tosses Teen Rape Conviction, Says 148 Days in Jail is ‘Plenty of Punishment’
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According to a copy of last week’s hearing transcript, Judge Robert Adrian insisted that 18-year-old Drew Clinton had a clean record before assaulting the girl, and had already endured “plenty of punishment” by spending 148 days in a county jail.

An Illinois judge had a shocking outburst in court Wednesday, kicking a prosecutor out with minimal explanation“Mr. Jones, get out,” Adams County Judge Robert Adrian fumed as he ordered Josh Jones of the Adams County State’s Attorney’s Office to leave the courtroom.

Clinton’s accuser, 16-year-old Cameron Vaughan, broke her silence Tuesday days after Adams’ reversal on Jan. 3. “By law, the court is supposed to sentence this young man to the Department of Corrections. This court will not do that. That is not just,” Adrian said. “There is no way for what happened in this case that this teenager should go to the Department of Corrections. I will not do that.”

“He blamed everyone except Clinton,” Quincy Area Network Against Domestic Abuse’s board of directors wrote in aJones told the Muddy River News that Adrian threw him out of court Wednesday for simply “liking” the post on the group’s Facebook page. It also featured the group’s logo alongside text that read: “Hold rapists accountable.”calling for charges to be filed against Adrian for “abuse of judicial discretion and power.

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