Here Snopes.com makes some good points. Still, I can't help but think that Marcus would not be in this situation if he were white.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/dixon.asp

In Georgia anyone who inflicts "any injury", during sex, of a person under the age of sixteen in guilty of agravated child molestation.

This despite the lack of signifigent age difference. Oh god, all my old girl freinds from high school would be doing multiple life sentences if they stood before this judge.

Yep the majority of men I know would be doing time...Its pathetic in this day and age that a law like this is kept is existance it has no merit at all!!!
And how the hell is no-one prosecuting the girl for racially motivated injustice!

he shoulda dated someone his own age, he put himself in this instance, this isnt happening because he is black its hpapening because the girls parents made it into an issue when they found out she was having sex with a older guy. Ah well if he like sex with someone drastically age differentiated hell be having plenty of sex in prison with bubba. ah well...

There was only 2 years diffrence between them...U never dated someone 2 years older or younger than yourself????

appantly they weren't dating...

i knew a white couple...he was twenty, she was sixteen, became pregnant...they gave him fifteen years...they'd ask her parents to let them marrry...they consented...but there were the laws...no on could do anything....

i don't know much more because we moved...however there was a lot of this going on in kalispell...so to suggest it was racially motivated, i'll have to disagree.

besides...i don't think a girl would give her virginity up in that manner...at least none of them i know would...i know i sure didn't...i made the guy wait until we were back at my place in a nice, warm bed...

anyone hear of date rape?

i have but they were legally old enough to give consent making it a non issue. He should have thought of that before he fucked her.

he got what he deserved, hopefully he will be raped alot in prison.

Those agitating for the Dixon conviction to be overturned see this as an instance of two lusty teens who engaged in consensual sexual relations, something that should hardly be viewed as a crime even if one of the pair of lovebirds was technically a minor (15) while the other was fully an adult (18). However, prosecutors in the case are unwavering in their assertion the sex act was not consensual, and that the unnamed girl was forcibly raped. Whereas many of the popular accounts present the matter as one of an angered girlfriend crying foul and then shamefacedly changing her mind, the victim in this case has not withdrawn her claim of having been forced into sex. According to her account, which police and prosecutors appear to believe, she was taken by surprise while working as a student custodian after school in an on-campus trailer being used as a classroom. She testified that prior to the assault she and Marcus Dixon barely knew one another, and that she had never spoken more than a few words to him. She said she didn't scream or cry out for help "because I was afraid he'd hurt me." Yet Mr. Dixon claims a romantic liaison in which he suggested they go to his place, but she demurred (citing that someone might see them together and alert her racist father as the reason for that choice not being on the table), so they instead made out in a classroom trailer after school.

If it was unconsensual fair enough, i wish the guy all the ass rapings he could ever comprehend in prision, but he shouldn't be imprisoned purely for sex with a girl under age!!!!!
she was only a couple of weeks under her 16th birythday, and by that age your old enough to understand the consequences of your actions......
Whats a couple of weeks? Age is but a number, they say.

actually it said a couple of months meaning she was still legally 15 while he was 18. he ha a history of having sex with underaged girls, a loser by any other standards, the girl he claims to have consensual sex with barely knew him and they did it in an emptied classroom? riiiiight... i wonder why shes STILL pressing the charges against him and wont denounce her rape charges.

If anything this piece of trash got off lite, all the asshole black activists however seem to think that being an honor student somehow entitles him to be set free, sorry. but no. an animal is an animal and he belongs in prison.

How does consensual sex between an 18, and a 15 year old remotely justify this kind of punishment?

10 years in prison, that's three times what they give a first offense child molester. And it costs the taxpayer 25,000 dollars a year to incarcerate one individual. In monetery terms alone, how the fuck is it justified to spend a quarter of a million dollars just to keep two teenagers from doing it?

damn right. Kids will fuck whatever bullshit the goverment do to stop it.
billy i was actually agreeing that if the guy did rape the girl then fair enuff your suggested punishment is just....but whatever happened to innocent untill proven guilty?
If all he is guilty of is sex with a minor, a grave injustice has been done in my opinion.

this isnt his 1st offense, and who said it was consensual? He said it was consensual the girl he screwed is the one helping to press the charges... and your right it does cost a lost ot keep him in prison, he should be put to death instead.

Did you read the part of the page where it talked about the actual thign that happend?

lets put a few facts together.

He was a 6'3 200 pound big guy who had intercourse with a 5 foot 100 pound girl (or thereabouts)

She was a virgin

She never spoke to him and didnt know him

THey has "brief" sex in an empty classroom after school

Marcus Dixon said it wasnt rape because "she didnt scream or try to struggle"

she is STILL pressing charges against him.

Black on white crimes in the USA are played down because of groups like the NAACP who will often sue news stations for "smearing" the truth (report the truth)

The only one claiming it was consensual se is this asshole, and the NAACP lawyers hes got on his side.

All that coupled with the fact that she still to this day insists that he raped her is proof enough that he did. He deserves the death penalty in my mind. But ill settle for his salad getting tossed for 10 years in prison.

[quote=Billy the Kidd]Did you read the part of the page where it talked about the actual thign that happend?

lets put a few facts together.

He was a 6'3 200 pound big guy who had intercourse with a 5 foot 100 pound girl (or thereabouts)

She was a virgin

She never spoke to him and didnt know him

THey has "brief" sex in an empty classroom after school

Marcus Dixon said it wasnt rape because "she didnt scream or try to struggle"


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1stly the fact he is black, a big guy, she was a vigin, 15 or small don't prove he was guilty.
THATS FOR THE COURT TO DECIEDE
What happened to innocent unitll proven guilty???

so, because he's black, that makes him innocent?

the jury had already found him guilty...maybe not the rape charge, who'd want to put a star basketball player up for rape?

too often; females who have been raped, get raped even more by the system designed to protect them...what could she do if she didn't want to have sex, ask him to politely leave her alone?

i'm going with the suggesting he did rape her, that's knowing how important virginity is to a female...and none that i know would give it up in an empty classroom...but what would i know about being a female?

No jordyn he was innocent because he was a black HONOR student get it? because ya know theres not alot of black honor students out there so when there ASRE black honor students they should be forgiven when they rape a girl, i mean c'mon we cant throw a black HONOR student in jail he was a black HONOR student.

i knew honor students in school, and they were anything but honorable...and at that point in time, the entire school was white...race had nothing to do with it...being the "favored" students had everything to do with it.

c'mon Jordyn dont you know!!!! Black men are always innocent, especially Rich or honor student ones, Kobe Bryant COULDNT have raped that whtie woman!!! hes black!!! Hes a nice guy didnt you see his Nutella commercial!!!!?!?!?! And also he is innocent because black people NEVER cause crime! OJ?! He was innocent too thank GOD the jury of mostly black women (who have a grudge against white women who marry successful black men) found him innocent, i mean forget all that forensic evidence, nail scratches on his body and the fact that he pulled a 3 hour police chase in his white blazer! HE INNOCENT HES BLACK!!!