Russell Otis guilty of misdemeanor sex charge, acquitted on fraud count, jury hung on other counts

Why is it so hard to send this predator to prison?

Can someone please explain to me how child molestation can be considered a misdemeanor?

I was wondering that myself.

Wow, the jury deliberated for two weeks. I thot it would be a mistrial.

Looks like he won't be coaching kids anytime soon, even if he dodges jail time.

Good for Mr. Otis. He seems like such an upstanding citizen. He should be back on the basketball courts before you know it. Geez

Isn't this a great country we live in?

Coach, meet your new cellmate. His name is Bubba. LOL.

I'm still trying to figure out why he was found not guilty on the count regarding the Nike check.

Wonder if having sex with kids is only a Misdemeanor back in the proud American States? Our is that one of those "progressive" things that makes today's California so SPECIAL.

Apparently, in Compton, if you receive a check, made out to the School District, from a major sportsware company, and it just happens to end up in your personal checking account, and there aint no way to prove dat you be the one that deposited it, it just happened by ax.ident, and once it was in yo account, it be yo moneys.

Amazing.

Imagine that will be the last check Nike will be sending to the Compton School Dist.

Spike wrote:

Apparently, in Compton, if you receive a check, made out to the School District, from a major sportsware company, and it just happens to end up in your personal checking account, and there aint no way to prove dat you be the one that deposited it, it just happened by ax.ident, and once it was in yo account, it be yo moneys.
Amazing.
Imagine that will be the last check Nike will be sending to the Compton School Dist.

What's somewhat humorous about this check is that Otis apparently tried to cash it at one of those check-cashing places and they refused to do it. That should have been a hint that what he was doing was wrong. However, it appears that Otis isn't too hip as to what's wrong as shown by his child molestation conviction.

The misdemeanor conviction is a start.(totally disappointed with the jury)Just know He will do it again.But with the decision His life is going to be hell, just being a registered sex offender is a jail sentence in it's self!His life will never be the same. Can you imagine all the neighborhoods(parents) that will openly protest when he tries to live in any one of them! He can't do anything else but coach,(won't be getting a job doing that anymore)The road ahead for him will be hard! God works in mysterious ways.

CHS wrote:

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What's somewhat humorous about this check is that Otis apparently tried to cash it at one of those check-cashing places and they refused to do it.

If you get nixed by Nix, you're a sad puppy

Concerned wrote:

His life is going to be hell, just being a registered sex offender is a jail sentence in it's self!His life will never be the same. Can you imagine all the neighborhoods(parents) that will openly protest when he tries to live in any one of them! He can't do anything else but coach,(won't be getting a job doing that anymore)

Maybe he can rustle up a team out by the Salton Sea where the sex offenders live

finally

its seems in LA county the worst crime you do the less time you get

I feel srry for Coach Otis but that's between him nd God

its called "The System" ... yes, he has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and yes this kid is going to be cautious of who he trust from now on..two lives ruined, and no help was ever offered... The System at its best... just sad all the way around..
and yes, only god can truly judge him..

here we go again wrote:

its called "The System" ... yes, he has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and yes this kid is going to be cautious of who he trust from now on..two lives ruined, and no help was ever offered... The System at its best... just sad all the way around..
and yes, only god can truly judge him..

this is calf look at that know sex-offender who had that poor girl for what 18 years what did the system do they dropped the ball the system is about writing tickets and taking your money.you have a prison system filled with drunks,shoplifers and jaywalkers its time for this state to wake up

CHS wrote:

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What's somewhat humorous about this check is that Otis apparently tried to cash it at one of those check-cashing places and they refused to do it. That should have been a hint that what he was doing was wrong. However, it appears that Otis isn't too hip as to what's wrong as shown by his child molestation conviction.

So let me get this str8t, he took the Nike check to a check-cashing place, it was refused, and the jury didn't find him guilty? Classic. I'm guessing the witness at the check cashing place couldn't ID him cuz he looked just like the last five customers that tried to cash fraudulet checks or the assumption in Compton that if you got a check in hand, it be yo money.