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Originally Posted by NegativeSpace
Before anyone casts against EM, let's remember that the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. If the judge is sitting there thinking that these guys are 85% guilty and there is a 15% chance that the consent was wilful, then she still needs to acquit.
However, the media reports of the evidence kept raising the question for me of why the Crown was leading this woman through this experience without more evidence. Perhaps they thought that the text messages were their smoking gun. Wonder if there will be Crown appeal on the failure to admit those texts into evidence.
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This to me was a key point in this trial. The texts were supposedly damning. They were excluded on a pretty weak basis. It could be an appeal, of the Crown has the stomach for it.