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Originally Posted by Scary
i agree that he should have never put himself in that position, but the woman deserves to go to prison for this. it's to common now where someone famous sleeps with someone and the story is either sold to the papers or a rape claim is put in so they can get as much money as possible in my mind thats prostitution.
the real reason this angers me is there are people out there men and woman that have been victims of domestic violence or rape but it will never go to court because they see things like this and believe that they wont get any justice.
Anyone who makes a false claim of rape must go to prison
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You're advocating a system whereby a rape trial becomes a zero-sum game where one of the participants is going to jail either way. Either the defendant is found guilty or the woman was lying. There would be no grey between the lines. It would be a binary certainty that one of those two things would have to be true even though our justice system doesn't work this way.
You're not allowing for the fact there can simply not be enough evidence.
You're not allowing for the fact two people can hold contrasting views of the same event.
You're not allowing for the fact that a jury system is, while very good, fallible.
You claim this angers you because there are victims of sexual assault out there but do you know how many of them would come forward if doing so could see them imprisoned if they're not believed, the jury decides the other way or the case simply isn't strong enough? I imagine very few. Rape convictions would fall to almost zilch.
It's horrible.