In a scathing report, an Illinois judicial oversight board found Judge Robert Adrian “subverted the law and then lied about it under oath to serve his own interests” after reversing his guilty verdict against a suspect. NBC News’ Maggie Vespa reports.
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There’s got to be more to this story
The Judge was dead wrong in my opinion and should’ve been dismissed way before now.
MAGA Slime!
For all you young ladies out of there mom and dad are right, stay away from wild parties… Where you’re drinking alcohol and swimming in your underwear!; there’s monsters out there!
I feel like theres more to this then the media is telling you. Young men are too often accused of things they are not guilty of by spiteful women. If what is alleged is true though, that would be messed up.
You’re weirdly defensive and it shows. You have no proof, just conspiracies based on your own personal predetermined narrative that men are victims of women
It’s a party with Yong kid drinking yes this things happen but rap is when you get kidnapped and abused. In this case she was sleeping in bedroom drunk with this boy and that is life in any case womy need to respect them selves and each way they dress drink and stay out late 🇮🇹man Will be man and woman want to change that 🇮🇹✌️ it never work you’ll have to put every man in jail
only thing he revisited was his explanation
no proof….you can’t just SAY someone did something…
Of course you can. Do you think the justice system didn’t exist before the invention of cameras?
@@Tortilla.Reform Yes but you require evidence to be convicted.
Blood on your clothing. Lying about an alibi or where you were. Etc etc…
Seems the only thing here know would be…
Person A was on a couch.
Person B was on the couch.
Person A “says” person B was doing “things”.
Needs a witness or multiple witnesses. A pregnancy. Skin under her fingernails. Signs of a struggle. etc etc…needs Something or it’s just hearsay.
If this happened to his daughter, he would felt different.
What arrogant judge, nose up in the air looking down at everyone. Silly question, is the guy any relation to the Bill & Hilary Clinton by any chance? Was there new evidence provided to chance the judge’s verdict, new witness or camera footage maybe? Or is he saying he wasn’t paying attention the first time and missed something, in which case he needs to go. Last thing you need is a sloppy judge. Wonder if he’s pasted verdict in the past while being sloppy and didn’t go back for a second look at the evidence. Might be someone sitting in prison because he was sloppy.
What if it was his daughter that happened too?
Cannot believe they removed him. What about his special qualified immunity? Good riddence. Poor, poor, poor, poor misunderstood judge.
I’ve seen the girl being interviewed all over the net. She doesn’t act like a recent victim, she acts like an extroverted person getting the most out of her fame. I’m sorry, there was no dna, I am not a gullible person.
Are you this stupid in real life?
What? You think there is one way that a recent victim acts? Are you drinking again?
Maybe the Judge likes the guilty teen with some form of payment.
I can tell you everyone has been in party’s with alcohol, whether you drink or not, you know how people get when they get drunk. Yes or no?
In my honest opinion, I believe this, now lady, drank alcohol while she knew she was underage. She didn’t care for her safety or law. She got drunk and she wanted it. It doesn’t make sense for a ‘not’ sober person to pull out from the strength of man? I believe she is lying or not telling the whole story as it should.
As a drunk person, she woke up where she wanted to sleep. The pillow in her face is her only excuse…why?? Is the judge correct ? 🧐
Some of these judges really need investigating, and have their views on sensitive topics evaluated, he is obviously sympathetic to adults r#ping minors.
Alcohol doesn’t turn teenage boys into predators. They are just predators!
Charge adult
i’m going back to sleep
The judge should go to jail!!!!
Imagine having KKK judges that are deciding over blacks at will. This is Dangerous!!!
Not guilty!
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It is not bias???
This judge has too many stories to believe any of them…
That judge should be barred nationwide absolutely unacceptable, inexcusable.
What are you talking about
JUDGE YOU SUBSTITUTE YOUR DAUGHTER OR SUBSTITUTE YOUR WIFE YOU WOULD NOT LIKE IT
Any one who looks down their nose when talking to you is a sign that this person thinks they are better than you and have no respect for you. He was rightly removed from his position but also it makes you wonder how he ever got there! What arrogance.
Check his bank accounts!
Clinton, huh? That name rings a bell..any relation to bill and hillary?
he won his re-election that is wild lol
Me thinks that He got a payoff.
Removing a crooked judge from the benh means making room for an even worse one in the present state of corruption in this vountry and the whole world.
The boy definitely had the complextion for the protection 🤦🏽♂️
DOG
Hes 18 why not show his face?
She should sue him for defamation, this video provides evidence
Bet she has onlyfans 😂
Praying for her healing journey. No one should wake up to being assaulted no matter what she did to be where it dont give anyone the right to touch.🙏🏿
He got paid off
Rapists cover for rapists. I’m just saying that every woman should watch their backs around that judge.
Oh… She had MONEY.. MONEY…..
That Judge needs the boot ..He’s gross…He lets rapists off…
I bet if he had gone to town on the judge’s back door he’d have a different opinion
I believe this former judge!!
Geez, it’s hard to stifle one’s gag reflex! Typical EDOMONIC nonsense … But, just look at how their men in power do their OWN women and children.
Misogynis at it’s best
It’s no wonder the commission determined he was lying. He said: “By law, this Court is supposed to sentence this young man to the Department of Corrections. This Court will not do that. That is not just.” He’s explicitly acknowledging the defendant is guilty! If he truly believed he wasn’t guilty, he wouldn’t believe that “by law, this Court is supposed to sentence this young man to the Department of Corrections.” Good riddance to this smug, narcissistic, dishonest good ol’ boy.
Is an unpopular idea. Don’t go to a party where does alcohol being served when you’re that young.
“I revisited evidence of a case a sentenced 5 months prior just because”
1:14 This court is supposed to obey the law, but the law is not just (no further explanation given?), so Ima do what I want.
Now past records of all his cases has to be reopen,to verify he hasn’t affected others as well.could be a pattern to get even or charge lawyers a fee to get their clients off.
“(they allowed) female people (in underwear)” tells you all you need to know about how this dude thinks about women….
That judge sounded like he been to alot of parties with young teenagers
I take the bear, always the bear
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You would feel differently if this was your son , nephew. Etc. Kids doing stupid stuff
What about women who have lied and recked men or boys life and get nothing for lieinf??????
Just one word! Wow 😮 I’ll go out on a limb here and say if this was his daughter he’d be acting completely different! What an absolute dinosaur 🦕 this thing of a man should be put in jail! For the young woman we’re desperately sorry for you having to go through this ❤
When women say that this country hates women, THIS is what we mean.
Just shows you how stupid Lawyers and Judges really are. This guy is talking like he literally has a mental dissorder. How was he ever a lawyer/judge?
The usual suspects exonerating themselves of crimes.
I will never “believe all women.” Because I am a woman. If it was a he said/she said with no concrete evidence there can not be a guilty verdict.
The lad needs to be accountable for his actions
You’re a joke!
Girl CLAIMS she was assaulted with no evidence and a guy would go to jail for 4 years??? Ridiculous. The fact that the u.s. elects judges is bizarre and dangerous. The guy who was accused should sue her.
How much was in it for this judge? How much he got paid?
Her parents are responsible for what happened full stop.
What is she doing so drunk in a place thats not her home.
These w0m3n makes themselves easy prey .
Im not saying men shouldn’t have self control either.
I wonder how much he got paid to change his conviction
Where the picture of the guy? Always protecting criminals
So what happened to the original perp?
I really hope this young lady recovers from this. Shes got a bright future,God bless her heart. 🙏
THAT SOUNDS SUSPECT CORRUPT JUDGE
I wonder if they paid him in cash or check for the bribe?
One, does anyone know if the original conviction was reinstated? Or is the 18 year old out scott free now?
The judge kept looking up and to his left, isn’t that an indicator that he is lying? Also if I’m hearing this right, the judge thought the 18 year old was innocent 1, because he thought a 16 year old was lying and 2, because alcohol was being served at a house party? So it’s not the 18 year old’s fault because he was drunk and the house environment caused this to happen? Did I hear him right?
I hope this young lady can get some healing and try to move forward.
Is America the new India ?🤣
I’m not victim blaming but my parents would have been absolutely appalled if I, at 16 years of age, drank alcohol to the point of passing out. Girls absolutely HAVE to learn that they are at risk and behave in a way to minimize those risks. My mother made no bones of teaching us that. However, the judge did the wrong thing in his finding of not guilty. He could have said that the 5 months incarceration was sufficient as punishment, but the boy should still have a criminal record. Young men also need to learn how to behave appropriately
What do you expect from a corrupt country?
He got paid!!!
4:00 you’re wrong about that because judges go beyond the bounds of law all the time..
Sponsored by Pfizer.
NBC is FAKE NEWS!!!
Many judges do whatever they please by default it’s their every day, today in america they have a 97% conviction rate you can see this in how many end in some kind of Deal .!!!
The judge is full of it he reversed his decision because he wanted to victim blame.
I didn’t believe her ether!
Of course you didn’t
How much time would a Black man get ?
It would be a different outcome if it was his own daughter.
He’s dishonest. And a disgrace.
It would be one thing if he was honest and admitted he did it to thwart the mandatory sentence which he thought to harsh, which is obviously what he did. But to turn around and say he was because he thought the young woman was lying, which is obviously a lie on his part, is outrageous and particularly hurtful to the young lady.
Heard v. Depp 2.0?
Thank God!🙏 This man does not know what justice is and should have been removed. More judges need to be held to account for bias. I could name a few I’m watching now in trials.
The whole situation she was in was wrong. However, the 18 year old WAS GUILTY. I don’t care if the boy was 2 weeks of 2 minutes over 18.
See ya, judge! 🙋
Anybody else notice that in the last exchange he kept looking over above the camera at something? Was it his lawyer or was he trying not to look people in the room in the eye as he lied and defamed the victim?
People are so eager to jump to conclusions without having the whole picture…
Maybe a brown envelope changed hands after the original verdict.
this guy is a joke. Hope i doesn’t have daughters. That’s why the bear is the choosen one
Nobody wants to look at evidence. They just want to take a side.
Yah he served his own interest alright. I bet if you look back into HIS history, he’s probably done the same thing and gotten away with it, or there was some palm greasing. Check to see if he’s a republican, which would explain a lot. Seems most are perverts who want to cover up their own “crimes”. Not only is great news he was thrown off the bench, he should be disbarred, never to make an unlawful, personal, judgement again.