Sometime’s it’s necessary to let a guilty man go free rather than see an innocent man go to prison.
Story updated HERE at BreitBart.com.
Mr. Hinson was found not guilty on April 23, 2007. Of course, he’s still in custody on federal gun charges, because convicted felons aren’t able to carry firearms.
Regardless of how this particular trial ended, you’ll still probably see him in hell as he’s been convicted of raping a 12-year-old back in 1991. I expect we’ll see him in the news again before long. Maybe next time, the prosecutor won’t be such an idiot.
There are a lot easier ways to score drugs than having sex with a scary-looking, old, convicted child rapist, stealing his supply, and then trying to pass it off as a rape when your friends found out how you got your pot
A convicted sex offender says he was proud of an underground bunker he built beneath his home, where prosecutors said he bound two teen girls with duct tape, raped them and left them to die.
Authorities have said the girls managed to escape in March 2006 and tell police about their ordeal in the room that was just 4 1/2 feet deep and roughly the length and width of a midsize car.
Defense attorney Rick Hoefer said in opening statements Tuesday that the girls lied. “These women, they’re not the victims in this case. They’re perpetrators,” Hoefer said. “The issue is going to be, was the sex consensual between these parties?”
One of the teens told jurors later in the day that she didn’t even know the bunker existed until Kenneth Glenn Hinson came into her bedroom while she was sleeping and bound her mouth and hands with duct tape before taking her to the underground room. “He was saying how he could kill us and nobody would ever know about it,” said the girl, who testified for more than two hours Tuesday. “He said he’d killed before. He was telling us he could grind us up and feed us to his dog.”
Before the trial opened, Hoefer unsuccessfully argued to throw out statements Hinson made to police after hiding for four days. Hoefer said Hinson was too dehydrated and disoriented to understand his rights read by officers when he was arrested in March 2006. Hinson told deputies the room was a fallout shelter and no one else knew about it except his accusers, who had been there before, former Darlington County Sheriff’s investigator John McLeod testified.
“They used it for I believe what he said was ‘wild times.’ They’d go and party there,” McLeod said.
When the jury was not in the courtroom, Hinson testified about the bunker with a floor and walls lined with two-by-fours and illuminated by a single 75-watt bulb. “I was very proud of it,” said Hinson, 48. Attorney General Henry McMaster said if the teens were not been able to wriggle free and escape “they might have died down there.”
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