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Sex Charge Thrown Out Against Former Teacher
Sandy Binkley Found Guilty Last Month Of Separate Charges
POSTED: 8:37 am CDT October 16,
2009
UPDATED: 8:26 pm CDT October 16,
2009
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. -- A Robertson County judge on Friday agreed to throw out a charge against a former Portland teacher accused of having sex with a former student.
Watch This StoryThe judge threw out the charge against Sandy Binkley based on the possibility that the alleged victim might have been 18 if and when the sex took place at her home.A jury last month found Binkley was guilty of two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. She was acquitted on seven of nine counts in the case.Those encounters happened at the school, but Binkley was also charged with having sex with one of the victims at her home in Robertson County.The boy involved in the Robertson County charges was the same person who Binkley said raped her, a defense the jury didn't believe at the Sumner County trial.Binkely is set to be sentenced in the Sumner County case next month.
Watch This StoryThe judge threw out the charge against Sandy Binkley based on the possibility that the alleged victim might have been 18 if and when the sex took place at her home.A jury last month found Binkley was guilty of two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. She was acquitted on seven of nine counts in the case.Those encounters happened at the school, but Binkley was also charged with having sex with one of the victims at her home in Robertson County.The boy involved in the Robertson County charges was the same person who Binkley said raped her, a defense the jury didn't believe at the Sumner County trial.Binkely is set to be sentenced in the Sumner County case next month.
Previous Stories:
- September 30, 2009: Portland Teacher Found Guilty Of Sexual Battery
- September 28, 2009: Teacher/Student Texted After Alleged Rape, Say Prosecutors
- September 24, 2009: Boy: Dad Almost Caught Him With Binkley
- September 22, 2009: Juvenile Says Sex With Teacher Consensual
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