A judge rules Trent Mays should be classified as a sex offender . Mays and Ma'lik Richmond , high school football players , were convicted in March . They were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl last year . The blogger wrote about the possibility that the teenagers had been given preferential treatment because they played on the town 's highly regarded football team . The case was widely covered by the media because it involved two young men who had been accused of rape but not charged with any crime.
A judge rules Trent Mays should be classified as a sex offender . Mays and Ma'lik Richmond , high school football players , were convicted in March . They were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl last year . The case was widely covered by the media because it involved two young men who had been accused of rape but not charged with any crime.