Who is the defense in court
Defense lawyer Worrick Robinson delivers closing arguments in Vandy rape case
when I first got this case started
looking at it and I saw these videos and
I saw these pictures
I could imagine
what happened how could this have
happened how did this kid get caught up
in this and I figured out that what I
was doing was I was looking at this case
through 51 year old lenses a 51 year old
brain 51 year old eyes 51 year old life
experiences but that's not how we can
look at this case we have to I had to
look at this case like a 19 year old
college kid at Vanderbilt University
every one before you got on this juries
agreed that our culture shapes our
decisions it's part of our environment
it drives us in what we do it's all
around us every day and my culture is
not the Vanderbilt college culture it's
different but our culture defines what
is acceptable and not acceptable what
might be moral in my culture or immoral
in my culture might be very moral very
standard in a college kid culture what's
what's a culture that we're all involved
in daily the speed of the traffic coming
in if you take the interstate it's
generally 55 miles an hour a lot of
times the traffic flow is 60 to 65 I see
the sign it's 55 but I'll stay in the
flow of the traffic at 62 65 is it wrong
is it against the law yeah but it's the
culture that I'm driving in just driving
in on my way to work
so what is the culture the culture we
see for these kids it affects them
absolutely it's a different culture than
I understand where it's like friends
with benefits or it's like smashing
words like well no it's just argument I
must be saying the right things because
they keep getting objections but the
culture we see and the culture these
kids have and what they do the language
where they're going what they do it's
all part of their culture it's not part
of our culture but that's the way I had
to look at this with not the 51 year old
eyes and brains I have I had to see what
they understand and what they're doing
our culture is shaped by many different
things I talked about this in my opening
it's not only music country music rap
music R&B it shakes our culture our kids
grow up because and they want to be like
the people they see on TV they want to
be like the artists that are our singing
they want to be like the people on TV
they see shows like Jersey Shore they
see shows like redneck ah it's on CMT
you can't think of the name
they say see these shows and they think
it's funny and these shows glorified
drinking they glorified sex they
glorified promiscuous sex they glorify
acting out they glorify multiple
partners smashing hooking up and that's
why the kids want to grow up so what was
the culture for Cory Beatty culture
encouraged underage drinking drinking in
your room then going to a party and then
going to another party you stay out late
you get drunk you have sex it's not
important if you remember it it actually
seems to be funnier or more
light-hearted or laughable if you don't
remember we saw in the video this
surveillance video from Vanderbilt
University we saw signs of excessive the
excessive consumption of alcohol which
is exactly what Cory matey did
