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Date: August 10, 2007 12:33:47 PM PDT
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Subject: (2) Introducing "Young Republicans" to the Party's Values
Michigan Young Republican activist
pleads guilty to sexual battery
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6836804&nav=0RceXt7f
CLEVELAND -- A lawyer who formerly led a Michigan young Republicans
organization has pleaded guilty to sexual battery for forcing sex
acts on a woman while both were at a convention last July.
The case was headed to trial, but prosecutors reached a plea
agreement with Michael A. Flory during a break in jury selection
Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
Flory, 32, of Jackson, Mich., faces one to five years in prison or
probation at his sentencing Sept. 13. He also will become a
registered sex offender. Judge Peter J. Corrigan will determine
whether to classify him as a sexual predator.
When Corrigan asked if he was pleading guilty, Flory responded
"sure." When pressed by the judge and prodded by his attorney,
Flory then answered, "yes."
Flory had faced 11 charges, including eight counts of rape,
kidnapping, aggravated burglary and gross sexual imposition.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Flory, who has a law office in
Okemos, Mich., and is the former chairman of the Michigan
Federation of Young Republicans, said accepting the plea would mean
less emotional hardship for the victim and witnesses who would have
been called to testify.
He was among the young Republicans, ages 18 to 40, at a convention
in Cleveland. The victim, 21 at the time, was intoxicated and
became ill, and Flory took her back to her hotel, said assistant
county prosecutor Carol Skutnik.
"She said thank you and goodbye, and he forced his way into her
hotel room and forced several sex acts on her," Skutnik said.
"Afterward he was bragging about it."
Flory put a different slant on why he accepted the plea deal.
"While I am confident a trial would have demonstrated the full
truth regarding these allegations, my experience as a lawyer was
that this course is the best avenue for all parties involved,"
Flory said in his statement. "The possibility of being unavailable
to raise my young son was simply too much for me to risk, and this
will allow us to get on with our lives."
The woman, also from Michigan, was satisfied that Flory accepted
responsibility for the crime, Skutnik said.
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