[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

To me, culpability in part revolves around the exact nature of who invited everyone else into the room and why that was done.
A few possibilities are present:

1. EM legitimately requested that McLeod invite others to the room. This one seems fairly far fetched, but is seemingly the story the accused are jointly presenting, buttressed by this episode where the complainant is allegedly in the middle of the room taunting players and asking to be "####ed".

2. McLeod unilaterally decided to invite the boys over post initial coitus, reason unknown, and wasn't clear to the invitees about the current situation. EM wasn't aware of other attendees being invited until they arrived. Once they arrived, EM potentially acted out in an effort to regain some element of control over the situation (the "who's going to #### me!") This would explain why some people seemingly thought this was a food related invitation and left reasonably promptly after finding out there was more to it. What doesn't make sense to me, if this is the case, is why the accused would want to present a unified front. Theoretically, they could diverge strongly from Mcleod if this was the case and act as though they were under the impression of consent from Mcleod and from the present actions of EM. This would make McLeod highly culpable and potentially diminish the case against the other accused. So if this were the case, it would be confusing that the lawyers of the other accused aren't pursuing it.

3. Most disturbingly, it could be a case where a select group of individuals (some of whom are the accused) had some element in "planning" this encounter. This is highly speculative, but if she had been drinking with the team and hitting on multiple of them (as is alleged) I can envision a scenario where several of these guys are together making a bigger plan. The plan being that they would get her alone and spring a group sex encounter on her in hopes that she "rolls with it". Here, the confusion for me belongs in why invite the other guys who weren't part of the "plan" if this were the case?

The truth is probably not any one of these, but these are the types of scenario i envision based on the reported testimony so far.

From the testimony I have heard it’s probably like most situations. The truth is somewhere in the middle.