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Originally Posted by Hackey
That's kind of a strange stance. If Kane went to jail for 3 years, lost his contract and endorsements, never played in the NHL again, had a a rape conviction on his criminal record, and was viewed as a rapist for the rest of his life by his friends, family, and the general public for a crime he didn't commit I'd say that would be pretty bad. Its tough to not take sides but thats a dangerous thing. This is something you want to make sure you get right and its easy to have biases.
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Ya, that would suck. That is exactly why the legal process is so rigid and convictions are difficult to achieve. It is highly, highly, highly unlikely (i.e. nearly impossible) that your scenario would happen if Kane had really done absolutely nothing wrong. These kinds of cases tend to live in the grey area, where multiple things can be true and levels of guilt, innocence, intent and misunderstanding are variable (and as such the resulting judgments tend to take this into account).
I'm sad to say that I believe there are far, far more very guilty people walking free compared to completely innocent folks in jail.