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Originally Posted by Samuelsson
Without meaning to be inflammatory, I hope that's not how Canada runs its legal system.
Anyway, the NHL are right to ban him; as long as they do the same to all future players who commit the same or an equivalent offence, and I hope the public outcry is just as loud for those times, too.
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It is how the legal system works - there are plenty of presumptions in evidential matters. For exampple, any statement given at the time of an event is generally more credible than one given later, especially after possible coercion. This is especially so with spousal testimony in a domestic violence case. She would be treated as a hostile witness and subject to cross-examination, not direct examination.