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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
I've been a prosecutor and defence lawyer.
All the defence needs is a reasonable doubt. That means if the judge feels 99% certain he's guilty, that's an acquittal. Whether that means they were lucky enough to draw the judge that always acquits if judge alone(there are some judges that convict after trial maybe 10% of the time), a few dummies on the jury if a jury trial, or some of the complainants just make honest mistakes testifying which makes them look a bit dishonest.
Especially with all the money that he's paying her, I'm sure she'll dig something up to try to impeach their credibility.
There are no slam dunks in sexual assault cases, none. A lot of very good crown prosecutors in my office when I was in Alberta were like 1/10 or 2/20 in securing sexual assault convictions after trial. It was almost a running joke. When you got a sexual assault conviction it was usually because the defence lawyer was inexperienced and did a ####ty job.
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I'm just going by memory but I don't think conviction rates for other major crimes are that much different than for sexual assault. Murder is usually about 50%, sex assault about 43%. It's less, but not much so given the inherent lack of physical evidence.
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Originally Posted by Yanda
They saw each other off and on for a year... There is no way it wasnt consensual. If your getting casually raped once a month then you deserve a darwin award.
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That's unbelievably ignorant. Give your head a shake.