Court overturns Dixon child molestation conviction

Court overturns Dixon child molestation conviction
Former student athlete released on recognizance


The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reversed the conviction of a Floyd County football star and student who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual offenses against a 15-year-old classmate.

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In a 4-3 decision, the court overturned the aggravated child molestation conviction against Dixon. The ruling, written by Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, said "the General Assembly intended to punish Dixon's conduct as a misdemeanor statutory rape rather than child molestation."

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Dixon was 18 at the time of the offense with a 3.96 grade point average. His football scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University was revoked after his arrest. His case drew national publicity and strong criticism from the NAACP. Dixon is African-American; the 15-year-old girl is white.

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Floyd prosecutors had alleged Dixon forcibly raped the 10th-grader in a trailer on the campus of Pepperrell High School. But Dixon's defense lawyers maintained the sex was consensual and that the victim fabricated the rape story to avoid trouble with her father.

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http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/0504/03dixon.html

I saw Oprah's show about this and I was disgusted. Hopefully, she will do a followup with him and his family. I also hope that he gets his promising future back.

They'd have to take over Australia as a penal colony....Wait....They did that once, didn't they?

And the Prosecuter is going to APPEAL the ruling! And she says "No, this wasn't about race..."

My ass it wasn't.