yeah seriously, the testimony of someone who had sex with her a few weeks later = what the fuck is our legal system
― imago, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
but lj surely if she were raped she would never have sex again?
― *-* (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 October 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
and surely she'd be able to give the same level of consent on one drunken night with one man as on another drunken night when one man decided to introduce another man to proceedings halfway through
― imago, Friday, 14 October 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
This was such an important case and this verdict is just bullshit in every way.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 October 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Charlton's forum is like 80% on the right side of this, tbf. Wonder if, say, Leeds' is
― imago, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
I can't even click on mine, probs about 60% of them in the string up all crims (apart from rapists) brigade.
It doesn't surprise me that grim neanderthal Chris Turner is "delighted" with this result. Well done to the court for emboldening a rapist and setting a fucked up precedent of victim harassment that will embolden many other rapists for years to come.
Sometimes it seems wherever you look in this country at the moment there is no light, just creeping malevolence everywhere. It's too fucking depressing.
― calzino, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link