Christian Houck, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: Are we headed for another PR nightmare with this Marcus Dixon? Please tell me this was a case of an 18-year-old boy and a 14- or 15-year-old girl situation, family was upset with the couple and charged statutory rape?
Mickey: OK, I will, and this is straight from a document: Marcus Dixon, the black high school honor student serving a 10-year sentence in a Georgia prison for consensual sex with his nearly-16-year-old white girlfriend, has had his conviction reversed by the Georgia Supreme Court. Dixon was acquitted on felony rape charges but found guilty of aggravated child molestation, which comes with a mandatory decade-long sentence, as well as statutory rape. Monday's ruling lets the statutory rape conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of one year and a $1,000 fine, stand. So it was just as you suspected.
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It is interesting that the crime of "statutory rape" carries a maximum of one year in prison.
I can guarantee you that CPS and the State did not make this move to throw a few men into jail for one year maximum penalties.
So, watch for the bigger charge of systematic conspiracy in fraudulent documents used to hide what is legally statutory rape.