Any backlog in the appeals process would be even more reason why a RATIONAL person would take every step to ensure they met the letter of the law when it came to bail conditions. It’s hard for me to believe it wasn’t clearly spelled out for him by those overseeing his monitoring, his lawyers, we know the judge greatly emphasized it during his sentencing. There are plenty of ways to continue learning without putting his bail at risk especially for someone with Labrie’s intelligence and prior history of self-directed learning. For a person with his intelligence, he isn’t even careful about what he says to people, what he does…
The behavior pattern is clear. He was educated multiple times about the age of consent, several friends warned him about it, yet he proceeded anyway.
He also could have taken a plea deal to serve 3 weeks with no sex offender registration requirement - so all of this was avoidable and he could have gotten on with his life (and the victim would have also been spared the experience of testifying). Sad all the way around. I agree with @doschicos on the psychological issues.
Classic narcissist. If you’ve known one, none of this is surprising. Grandiosity, magical thinking. It has nothing to do with native intelligence. If anything, the smarter you are, the more you trust your worst instincts.
So, do you think he’ll be looking for a new attorney? I can’t imagine his present attorney was thrilled with the position she was put in in the courtroom. Or is that par for the course as a defense attorney, all that creative spin? I believe she is #5 thus far. I know the first attorney who negotiated the plea deal quit.
@hrh19 I noticed the writing on his hand when he rubbed his face and wondered what it was. That reporter must have some good eyesight to make out the digits! I’m sure that young woman wasn’t thrilled seeing that call coming through.
Last year, when the case was in progress, I was reading the Twitter accounts of Jeremy Blackman and Ally Manning. Interesting thoughts.
Ugh! Hopefully the girl attending Harvard will move on. Can you imagine knowing your daughter’s boyfriend’s name is Owen and then learning it is this Owen?
Definitely interesting that the reporter wrote down the number and called it. How on earth could he have been able to see the digits? (I guess it also points to how things have changed since the 1980s … back in the day I knew my boyfriend’s phone number by heart, which I would think the ute of today would not when they could just program the number into their cell phones.)
One other interesting thing I noticed on the YouTube video was that Rancourt stood with her back to the camera and blocked the sight line so that the image of handcuffs being placed on Labrie was not visible. It was such an obvious move that I think she must have thought about it beforehand.
@GnocchiB - regarding the phone number, if the reporter recognized it (or assumed it) as a Harvard number, she might only have had to learn the last four quickly i.e. 617-495-xxxx as those of our age memorized as you mentioned, if we had friends at H back in the day… I used to know the exchanges for Wellesley and BU also, and I went to none of those schools.
Well, I guess the Harvard girlfriend is another explanation for him sporting the Harvard cap in the Newsweek article photos. I wouldn’t be surprised if the online classes he was taking were through Harvard Extension, too.
Maybe the reporter asked the cameraman to zoom in on Labrie’s hand or rewound the video, stopped it at the frame that showed the hand with number and then blew it up to read it.
That makes sense, @jonri. @fretfulmother good point about knowing the various exchanges but I wonder if nowadays most kids keep their home area code/cell when they go to college? Do colleges even offer landlines to students in dorms any more?
“wonder if nowadays most kids keep their home area code/cell when they go to college?”
I wouldn’t see why not. They are all used to 10-digit numbers where the first 3 aren’t particularly meaningful. I’d see no reason to assume a Boston area student had a 617 code - unless he or she was from Boston!
D had a landline in college freshman year, but never even hooked up the phone she brought. This was over ten years ago. S never bought one. They both used their cell phones throughout college. Both D and S are back in our home state now so their numbers are ‘local’ again. SIL still has an area code from his home state, though he has not lived there for over ten years. I know my family’s phone numbers, but count on my contacts in my cell phone for everyone else.