The fact that the names of the perpetrators has now gone viral has left them with no real way of containing the names. The defense withdrew the motion due to the futility acting to prevent her from further disclosure.
Defense attorneys for two teen-agers who pleaded guilty to assaulting 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich have withdrawn their motion that she be held in contempt for tweeting the names of her attackers in defiance of a court order.
David Mejia, an attorney for one of the teens, said given that the story has gone global because of a piece Saturday in The Courier-Journal, there was no reason to continue the contempt motion.
“What could contempt do now?” Mejia said in an interview, adding that the boys’ names have already been circulated far beyond the original tweet. “Seems like a rather useless exercise doesn’t it?”
You can read some of the case here:
Frustrated by what she felt was a lenient plea bargain for two teens who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her and circulating pictures of the incident, a Louisville 17-year-old lashed out on Twitter.
“There you go, lock me up,” Savannah Dietrich tweeted, as she named the boys who she said sexually assaulted her. “I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell.”
Now, Dietrich is facing a potential jail sentence, as the attorneys for the boys have asked a Jefferson District Court judge to hold her in contempt because they say that in naming her attackers, she violated the confidentiality of a juvenile hearing and the court’s order not to speak of it.
The fact the defense felt their clients were violated was very insulting to this woman that was drugged, sexually abused, and then had the images of the event posted on the internet. Must be a Republican.
8:42 PM PT: Apparently my last sentence is not clear.
Projection is something that the Republicans do often, that is the comparison I was making.
I hope that rectifies any confusion.