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Originally Posted by Meers
Unless you are a complete and utter moron, it is practically impossible for a wealthy white man to be successfully prosecuted for sexual assault in the US.
All Kane has to do is throw money at it, and the problem will go away.
For example, a classic trick of defence lawyers is to invite the victim (who will usually be poor) to a settlement conference on the pretext of offering a lot of money in exchange for silence, withdraw the offer and then leak that there was a settlement conference to the press - in the hope of tainting the grand jury or jury with the "gold digger" slander.
It's a tactic as old as the hills, and seems to have worked here.
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Are you a lawyer?
You just can't do a settlement conference, make an offer and then withdraw it and then leak it to the press, that would probably lead to a mistrial and if I've read right, a disciplinary investigation of the lawyer, in other words its not ethical to do that.
Evidence rule 408 which when I looked it up applied to civil actions.
http://adrr.com/law1/rule408.htm
Unless she goes into the settlement conference and basically compromises herself or admits she lied, anything in the settlement conference can't be bought in front of the jury and can have nothing to do with the juries judgement.
If a judge sees this in the press that a settlement was reached and then withdrawn, and Kane's lawyers went to the press, he would probably instruct the jury to disregard and then go after Kane's attorneys for an ethical breech.