04-30-2022, 10:39 AM
I know it's a fictional show, but I really think anyone who isn't up to speed on things, should watch Law and Order: SVU.
Again, fictional and dramatized, but what Fred wrote in his post about how difficult it is to prove consent is what they started to focus on (seemingly) in the seasons around 2016 or so (season 17 or 18, I think?), as there are a lot of cases where consent is blurred and the DA has a very hard time trying to prove intent.
Hell, my wife was completely clueless on the American judicial system and just by watching this for the past 4 weeks, every day (she's home on Maternity Leave), she now grasps the concepts and a bit of the process of rape cases and has a better understanding at what is being portrayed on screen.
I too vaguely remember this last year, btw and indeed it was dealt with swiftly. I can tell you (from a non-American's POV) that whether or not the act did occur, this woman has 0 case and 0 recourse, as per the details given in this mediocre to poor article.
I am an INCREDIBLY-moral human being and I want to see things righted/people put in the spots they should be put in, but I also don't want to see another Shawn Oakman sitch. That guy's career got ruined due to the reputation of the schools he was attending and because of his size/status as a football player. It says a lot when the majority of the Baylor victims were paid off/swept under the rug, yet Oakman maintained his innocence, went to trial and was acquitted.
Again, fictional and dramatized, but what Fred wrote in his post about how difficult it is to prove consent is what they started to focus on (seemingly) in the seasons around 2016 or so (season 17 or 18, I think?), as there are a lot of cases where consent is blurred and the DA has a very hard time trying to prove intent.
Hell, my wife was completely clueless on the American judicial system and just by watching this for the past 4 weeks, every day (she's home on Maternity Leave), she now grasps the concepts and a bit of the process of rape cases and has a better understanding at what is being portrayed on screen.
I too vaguely remember this last year, btw and indeed it was dealt with swiftly. I can tell you (from a non-American's POV) that whether or not the act did occur, this woman has 0 case and 0 recourse, as per the details given in this mediocre to poor article.
I am an INCREDIBLY-moral human being and I want to see things righted/people put in the spots they should be put in, but I also don't want to see another Shawn Oakman sitch. That guy's career got ruined due to the reputation of the schools he was attending and because of his size/status as a football player. It says a lot when the majority of the Baylor victims were paid off/swept under the rug, yet Oakman maintained his innocence, went to trial and was acquitted.