Personally I'm heartened by this decision. Like the Ghomeshi trial decision, it's good to know that the justice system is still capable of parsing through due process and assess a verdict based only on the evidence presented. If the courts were captured by the blowing winds of public opinion it would have been all too easy to convict Stanley. Then the only thing keeping anyone out of jail would be public opinion, which is a far scarier prospect than the odd guilty person being let free.
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