Jackson Jambalaya

May a carsick mongoose find solice in his hat.

To add insult to injury, his victim will be the gross old age of 37 when he gets out, but he may develop new tastes in his current play pen.

Not that it makes the crime of rape an less severe, but if he was born in 2000 and the crime took place in 2017, wasn't he technically a child as well?

My guess is that he was something more heinous to this crime. Something biblical like perhaps the victim was his sibling?

Or he was too poor for a good attorney.

The alleged victim is a 17 year old, not a child. Quit making it sound like he is a pedaphile.

So the defendant was also 17 at the time of arrest???

He was 17 and she was 17. What was the story?

“The laws of our society govern a process by which these dangerous and sick individuals will spend decades behind bars and now McLaurin can count himself amongst those.”

He was only 2 years older than she was (19 and 17). Sounds like he was a normal teenager. The sentence is a travesty of justice and has ruined the life of someone who was only acting like teenagers have acted since the dawn of man.

She’s 17, he’s 17. Mom walks in on them having sex in the kitchen. Girl insists it was rape.

Or maybe he really did rape her. Not enough detail to tell.

2:25, I'm with you. They were both minor teenagers in August of 2017. I pray there was a LOT more to the story.............

How 'bout keep your pants zipped up and you won't have to worry about being accused of things like this.

He's just a year into being an adult (over 18)? ...and she's not even a year shy of being one (under 18) herself? < Two years between them, both teenagers.

Agree with 2:32.. unless he was holding a knife to her, this is a gross travesty.

Battery is non consensual. This does not mean two teenagers acting like teenagers.

3:32 PM, 3:30 PM, 2:23 PM, 2:04 PM

Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney John K. Bramlett, Jr., want to send a message that a hard ass & he's tough on crime. Really makes him looks like a jerk, which I'm sure he is! If this was his son the DA would be singing another song.

Hope the teenager lawyer appeals this. Total a Miss carriage of JUSTICE.

"...saw a minor being pushed up against the sink". I hope this was not the extent of the testimony in court.

If this is all they had to go on, this boy was rail-roaded.

If there’s not more to this story, if this was just 2 teenagers and a vindictive parent, then Bubba needs to burn in hell.

Minors cannot give consent, so it’s automatically battery, even if the victim claimed consent.

Who the hell is John Bramlett? The D.A.'s name is Bubba.

Probably more to this story...

1) girl could have shown signs of being raped
2) boy could have threatened her in past
3) people are assuming they knew each other
4) people assume they were in a relationship
5) boy could have a record

And so on and so on

Verdict and sentence would be justified had she been 13 and he had been 28. Otherwise, this is a shit verdict.

If it wasn’t forcible, given the ages of both parties, it’s reprehensible.

5:04, KF and the other lawyers here can weigh in, but AIUI the age of consent in MS is 16. If this was consensual, no crime occurred.

This was sexual assault, battery not included.

Sexual battery requires penetration for y’all unschooled in law. He inserted one of his parts in hers. You
draw conclusions about matters and people without knowing anything about facts and in doing so spew falsehoods and defame victims, prosecutors and judges (who heard provable facts before imposing this sentence). Bubba Bramlett has prosecuted sex offenders for decades and along with law enforcement and judges has taken more sex perverts out of your neighborhoods than you know thus preventing abuse of other innocent children . Go sit in court sometime. Then come forth with an informed opinion.

Hey all you whiners and critics of District Attorney Bramlett. The district attorney didn’t convict him, a jury did. The D.A. Prosecutes the case, the defense attorney defends his client, the jury convicts or acquits, and the judge pronounces the sentence. That is the way the system works. If you don’t like it move to another country, maybe China or North Korea. They won’t bother with a trial. They will just shoot you in the head and be done with it.
Good job Bubba.

“Bubba” is a disgrace to the profession.

Hello 7:18 and 7:48. This is a blog of opinions and suppositions and parenthetical thoughts. You seem to ignore the fact that most every post you object to includes the words 'IF', 'otherwise', and/or 'I hope'. Those words, even to the most uneducated among us, seem to indicate the poster is asking for more information and not simply rendering some dumb-ass 'sideline verdict'.

Obviously none of us sat on the jury and none of us has all the facts presented to the jury. But neither do you, you sanctimonious twits.

This was a kangaroo court. We all know how this works. The DA and the judge are in cahoots and lawyers are pretty much helpless to defend a client. He would have done better in a murder trial.

Kingfish isn't it your job to give us some context here? Why do you think we come to this site?

Two things here.

Age of consent in Mississippi is 16, so this is not a minor child in that context.

Mississippi has a Romeo and Juliet exemption that allows an underage person to consent as long as the other person is within 2 years of their age.

So a 17-year-old cannot commit statutory rape against another 17-year-old. This would have to be a case of forcible rape, which a 17-year-old can certainly commit.

It’s tough to make any sense out of a lot of these sentences. If a cop was the one accused, we all know they would plea down to a misdemeanor and get probation.

Hmmm... a DA talks about two "teen agers," one is a "child" and the other, a brute who "abused a position of trust" and gets 20 years for sexual battery. Just thinking out loud here, but I'm going to go with, "what happens when a mentally-handicapped victim is 'raped' by someone with either a tenuous relationship-by-marriage (rather than direct blood, at least I hope) or in pseudo-caregiver role."