The Steubenville Defense Will Center on Date Rape Not Existing

Alexander Abad-Santos writes for The Atlantic Wire: “The very public trial of the very publicly shamed ‘rape crew’ will begin on Wednesday in Steubenville, Ohio, and despite pre-trial testimony from three as-yet-untried high-school athletes who say they witnessed an unconscious 16-year-old dragged around by her hands and feet, and slurring her words, and at one point lying on the ground before she was penetrated, it appears that the lawyers for Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond will say the case’s Jane Doe consented to the whole thing.”