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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Common sense is knowing the stats, knowing how juries work, knowing the criminal law standard, knowing that any complainant has to put herself through a real wringer to pursue charges and that sexual assault in a private setting is incredibly hard to prove.
The jury made a finding based on an almost impossible standard to meet in a he said/she said case. They may well believe he did it.
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He went to trial. Not only did he go to trial, he took it to a verdict, and let the jury decide is his fate.
The jury came back not guilty. Virtanen is free to go.
That’s the country we live in, and I don’t think you’d enjoy living in a country where a Not Guilty jury verdict isn’t worth the paper its printed on.