“Un oltraggio assoluto”: TD critica 35 testimonianze per l’ex Garda incarcerato per aggressione sessuale
https://www.thejournal.ie/td-slams-character-references-garda-sexual-assault-william-ryan-6619842-Feb2025/
di Widowwarmer2
“Un oltraggio assoluto”: TD critica 35 testimonianze per l’ex Garda incarcerato per aggressione sessuale
https://www.thejournal.ie/td-slams-character-references-garda-sexual-assault-william-ryan-6619842-Feb2025/
di Widowwarmer2
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35 people standing up for a rapist.
Cops protecting cops, disgusting but not surprising. 1312
Well he’s hardly going to commend them
Like she’s absolutely right but drives me mad the touch of disingenuous about it. It’s a former superintendent. Active guards very much cannot do this. She knows enough to know that. She’s right about it, the law has already been changed about this but no need to embellish.
The idea of character references seem odd and prejudicial. Maybe there’s a place for them in sentencing of non-violent crime, where there’s been no previous such behaviour. But it should have no role in determining guilt or innocence.
By the sounds of it, these testimonials were given during the trial (i.e. before guilt was established) and not once he was convicted. If 35 associates of a person can be found to be wrong about a defendant guilty of such a violent crime, it really shows how unreliable such testimonies are.
It’s a shame that the legislation relating to the character references doesn’t apply here. I’d be very interested in seeing the content of some of those testimonials.
Unbelievably disrespectful to the woman that suffered through this.