It’s both depressing and genuinely worrying that, such is the state of our ‘justice system’, I have no particular faith in this conviction.
The details given suggest a he said / she said situation. And some levels of inebriation.
I have little confidence that the CPS or a jury can appropriately parse those factors and come to a “beyond reasonable doubt” conviction.
Does anyone have any particular details that would change my prejudice?
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It is lamentable that, even after a victim has reported the rape, provided the police with as much evidence as is possible, including photographs of bruises on her wrists, endured 4 years of investigations, delays, a bruising adversarial court case, and finally got a conviction from a jury…
After all that, the first comment in here is “hmm, not sure about this”. Based on nothing more than a cursory read of one article, people think they’ve sniffed out an unsafe conviction.
In a nutshell that’s why rape is so under-reported and under-prosecuted.
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It’s both depressing and genuinely worrying that, such is the state of our ‘justice system’, I have no particular faith in this conviction.
The details given suggest a he said / she said situation. And some levels of inebriation.
I have little confidence that the CPS or a jury can appropriately parse those factors and come to a “beyond reasonable doubt” conviction.
Does anyone have any particular details that would change my prejudice?
It is lamentable that, even after a victim has reported the rape, provided the police with as much evidence as is possible, including photographs of bruises on her wrists, endured 4 years of investigations, delays, a bruising adversarial court case, and finally got a conviction from a jury…
After all that, the first comment in here is “hmm, not sure about this”. Based on nothing more than a cursory read of one article, people think they’ve sniffed out an unsafe conviction.
In a nutshell that’s why rape is so under-reported and under-prosecuted.