Yes, there are definitely some specific crimes that can’t be prosecuted if you’re too intoxicated to form the requisite intent. It’s called the “intoxication defense” and it applies only to crimes requiring what’s known as “specific intent” to do something.

As a polyamorous person, this is some bullshit. Humans aren’t built for monogamy or non-monogamy, just like women aren’t hardwired for empathy and men for conquest, they are just human, with infinite variety and desires. Some people find monogamy works for them, some don’t. If you’re one of those that don’t you should…

You’re a man accusing women of siding with rapists. Know your fucking place and stay in your fucking lane. You're every aspect of every worst ally ever.

the right-wing’s beloved, dust-matted can of expired Cheez Whiz.

:( if it makes you feel any better I’m also a young person and everyone I know votes and mostly liberal! So, we out here. Come join. Be the change you wish to see and all that. If you are in a Trump heavy area, the liberals are probably there, but keeping quiet.

He can start by convincing his shit for brains supporters (of which I am one, not the “shit for brains” part but the “supporters”part, actually the “shit for brains” part too) that Donald Trump is in no way shape or form an ideological alternative. I mean I looooooaaaaathe Clinton with an intense passion but I’m still…

I’m glad that she’s doing this, but, and this is kinda a big but, I’m so sick of people who can seemingly only really see the unfairness and the harm that even just words can cause in their own lives without extrapolating what others might be going through, too. I’m glad you’re bringing the issue of sexual harassment…

Well, as someone who stopped shaving, I’m pretty sick of everyone telling me I’m unhygenic/gross/ugly/smelly and lazy because I have hair. I’m also tired of seeing dudes (who probably wouldn’t go down anyway) claim any hair on a woman is the reason they won’t eat her out.

It’s never been about fetuses or babies with the “pro-life” people. It’s always been about having a moralistic shit-fit over people, specifically women, controlling their sexuality. The same groups tried to go after condoms a few decades back, and that blew up in their faces pretty bad, so they’ve been focusing on the…

I am fucking ECSTATIC that our elected officials are taking a stand (sit) against this bullshit. It irks the hell out of me that they need to adopt the tactics that those outside government use to urge government to action, because more than half of congress is basically a bunch of spoiled children.

I dunno, several jokes in this comments section:

Um, does anyone care about historical facts? Anyone at all?

Hey guys? You know you are going to have a hard time filling your jury box if you discount every woman person who has ever been sexually assaulted right?

He was American FFS.

The thing I always find funny is that it is rarely “refugees” or “immigrants.” It’s natural born citizens regardless of faith or lack thereof. You can ban all Muslims, and hypothetically assuming it works without a hitch, I bet there really wouldn’t be a decrease in mass shootings.

While avoiding all questions of if they need to change the state policy on gun purchases. Nice. Too bad this guy was born in New York. Banning all refugees would have prevented this tragedy never.

Worth noting that this dismissal was apparently based on a procedural error. So literally nothing Daleiden just said about it is true. Someone in the prosecutor’s office just screwed up drafting the indictment.

And this drives me nuts too! Does Florida have some sort of border control that we don’t know about.

Folks. There isn’t enough funding going into mental health. There aren’t enough facilities/beds, and in the rare instances where there are, it’s difficult to keep staffing up so that those beds can be filled. Mental health workers are often overworked and underpaid, and in those spaces where more is needed (outreach…

The comments on the article are ridiculous. No one in their right mind kills their children then tries to commit suicide. The contention that she planned it to get back at the children’s father is ludicrous.