In Georgia, a black, handsome man (so they say he was handsome) was charged with raping a white woman near a CVS parking lot. The defendant hired a private attorney to represent him and the defense was "the sex was consensual and I'm too handsome to rape someone anyway". At trial, the jury could not come to a unanimous decision because one juror believed there was a conspiracy issue going on with the police and a video shown. A second trial was conducted and defendant was found guilty. However, at the second trial, the defendant could not afford a private attorney. Therefore, a public defender represented him and only went with a "sex was consensual" defense. There was a lot of uproar during the first trial over the defense used. Some wonder if it would have worked had it been used in the second trial.
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