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A Naval Academy midshipman, described by family members as a choir boy with a burning ambition to go into politics, stood yesterday while a military jury announced he was guilty of indecent assault on a female midshipman and conduct unbecoming an officer....</p>
<p>...Mr. Ferris countered during his closing argument that the victim was lying to cover up the fact that she was 20 at the time and was engaging in underage drinking. Also, Mr. Ferris said the alleged victim had sex the previous night, a Thursday, with her boyfriend, according to DNA evidence.</p>
<p>The woman, then a junior who wouldn't have had liberty on a Thursday night, had sex at the Naval Academy or went AWOL, Mr. Ferris said. Either way, she faced expulsion unless she accused Midshipman Morrison and received immunity from punishment from Adm. Rempt....
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..."I was stunned by the verdict yesterday," said William Ferris, Morrison's civilian attorney, in a brief statement to reporters after the sentencing. "I can't understand how any reasonable person would have found him guilty based on those facts. I'm working on the appeal already."... </p>
<p>...His father, Kenneth Ray Morrison, begged jurors for a sentence of "no punishment," saying his son and the family had already been punished enough. He also complained that the name of Morrison's victim was not printed in news accounts. The Sun does not identify victims of sexual assault. </p>
<p>"Of course, I disagree with your verdict," he said, addressing jurors directly. "I know my son, and I know if you had the opportunity to spend an hour with him, you would not have voted that way. That verdict totally destroyed the career of a fine young man." ...
<p>i can't believe his father is complaining that they didn't print the name of the victim. of course the sun doesn't print the names of sexual assault victims, that would be most unjust, seeing as they did nothing wrong.</p>
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The two women who said a Naval Academy midshipman forced sex on them stood on a sidewalk yesterday at the Washington Navy Yard. There they watched the man taken away in handcuffs to begin serving his two-year prison sentence.</p>
<p>The first victim, now a senior midshipman at the academy, was the only witness prosecutors called to testify at yesterday's sentencing hearing....
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A military judge today will consider the concerns of a Naval Academy officer who believes fellow members of the jury that convicted a former Navy football player of sexual assault did not follow instructions in their deliberations, a development that could lead to a new trial, several sources familiar with the case said.</p>
<p>Marine Col. Stephen Day, the military judge who heard the trial, scheduled today's hearing at the Washington Navy Yard to weigh the seriousness of the juror's concerns....
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A juror on a panel that convicted a Naval Academy midshipman of sexual assault and sentenced him to two years in prison has concerns about the way deliberations were conducted, an attorney for the midshipman said Monday.</p>
<p>A hearing was scheduled for Tuesday at the Washington Navy Yard to discuss the juror, a member of the panel of seven Marine and Navy officers that in April convicted Kenny Ray Morrison of sexually assaulting a fellow a midshipman in 2006....
<p>Good grief. More like "and the stomach keeps churning..." :mad:</p>
<p>Ladies, don't be stupid and go out drinking heavily to the point you lose control of yourself and allow some twit to think he can take advantage of you. That's YOUR responsibility. Gentlemen, behave as gentleman and use your brain instead of your testicles to do your thinking. That's YOUR responsibility.</p>
<p>There it is: days of "sensitivity" "training" boiled down into four sentences.</p>
<p>All this because the girl(s) got drunk and the guy(s) got stupid. Sheesh. :mad:</p>
<p>I hope we now don't have to endure a spinoff soap opera about the potentially-tainted jury. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I just hope every prospective Mid/Cadet considers this reality and weighs the potential ruin that can so easily come when you put yourself "under the influence".</p>
<p>It is difficult enough to stay out of trouble when sober.</p>
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A military judge declined yesterday to grant a new trial to a former Navy football player who was convicted of sexual assault after a juror said his peers on the seven-member panel of Naval Academy officers had a "lack of impartiality" during deliberations.</p>
<p>Maj. Robb Mansfield, an electrical engineering instructor, testified in a hearing at the Washington Navy Yard yesterday that he came forward just two days after the conclusion of Kenny Ray Morrison's trial last month with concerns about "the method in which we attacked, or undertook the deliberations."...
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A member of the military jury that convicted a Naval Academy midshipman of sexual assault last month said Tuesday there was jury irregularity during deliberations, but a judge ruled that his concerns didnt warrant overturning the verdict.</p>
<p>Marine Maj. Robb Mansfield provided few details about the deliberations that prompted him to come forward during a hearing at the Washington Navy Yard, but said he was concerned about the way the panel found Kenny Ray Morrison guilty and sentenced him to two years in the Navy brig....
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A juror who reported "jury irregularity" in the indecent assault conviction of a Naval Academy midshipman found himself unable to elaborate during a court hearing yesterday.</p>
<p>A seven-member jury, made up of officers from the Naval Academy, convicted Midshipman 1st Class Kenny Ray Morrison III on April 10 and sentenced him to two years in prison....
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An officer on the military jury that convicted a former U.S. Naval Academy football player of sexual assault last month said in a court hearing yesterday that the jury had not been impartial, but the judge hearing the case ruled that the concerns were not grounds to reverse the verdict.</p>
<p>On April 9, the jury of Navy and Marine officers from the academy found Midshipman Kenny Ray Morrison, 24, guilty of indecent assault and conduct unbecoming an officer, charges stemming from a February 2006 incident involving a female midshipman at a D.C. hotel. The panel sentenced Morrison to two years in prison....