Here is the LA Times article from 2007 about the Republican party official in Florida who bludgeoned

[StevieM]

his classmate 10 years ago and is a Broward County Republican Party secretary today.


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The Los Angeles County district attorney's office on Wednesday moved to try a 17-year-old Harvard-Westlake School student as an adult in the highly publicized beating last month of a female classmate.

In a felony complaint filed in Van Nuys Superior Court, prosecutors charged Rupert Tumin Ditsworth of Beverly Hills with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly beating Elizabeth Barcay, 18, with a claw hammer.

Ditsworth had earlier been charged in Juvenile Court, but prosecutors withdrew that case. Ditsworth's attorney, Patrick Smith, has asked for a hearing before the Juvenile Court judge to fight charging him as an adult, according to Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney.

Smith could not be reached for comment.

Ditsworth, who was not publicly identified until the court filing Wednesday, was taken by his parents to a psychiatric hospital for treatment immediately after the May 14 assault, which left Barcay with a broken leg and a broken nose, police said. Barcay's mother, Barbara Hayden, said in an earlier interview that her daughter was struck 40 times and that her scalp was split.

Read More: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/07/local/me-harvard7

[First Speaker]

1. A future Senator!

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2. I was posting the same story (I was cutting and pasting) a few minutes ago in GD.

You were quicker by a few minutes

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3. Man white privilege fully on display

Tarsey was a 17-year-old student at an exclusive private high school. Police said the victim, a fellow student, was left with a broken leg and a broken nose.
Party leader's violent criminal past engulfs Broward Republicans in turmoil

Her mother, a physician, said the victim was struck 40 times and her scalp was split. “Her hair and face were caked with blood,” she said. “On the left side, her head was shaped like a football.”

The criminal case, originally a felony, ended with a sentence of probation and no jail or prison time. Years later, his legal team got a court to amend it to a misdemeanor.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-broward-republican-party-ruling-20171129-story.html

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4. If he was 17 year old black boy he would have gotten 30 years. And that's in California.

In most southern states he would have gotten 90 years.

This guy eventually had his felony reduced to a misdemeanor.