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A 10-year nightmare over rape conviction is over

He was a fool to have plead guilty, as it leaves no recourse to sue the accuser (or the state). As usual it is the taxpayers that lose in the end as they paid this liar $1.5 million in tax money (via the schools fault in the non-rape), now long gone I would bet.

A plea of "no contest" is not a guilty plea. It says a person accepts the punishment but is not accepting the guilt for the crime. It gives him every bit of recourse against the person and the state.
 
So where is she? What are the charges against her?

She better be in ****ing jail now - you don't utterly destroy someone's life so cruely over some stupid 'what my mommy thought of me' crap - and then just get away with it.

Justice = tossing her lying skank ass in the clink and losing that damned key.

From what I understand, there aren't any charges being persued--so far.

A decision that would end up in me being sent back to jail, for beating the living **** out of this lieing whore.
 
There is such an emotional bond with the victim of a sexual assault that juries tend to "error on the side of caution" rather than put a potential rapist back on the street, they convict even if they aren't sure.

The problem lies in that with things such as molestation, with no evidence, true to God real molestations don't leave evidence except for an honestly harmed child. But a child being honest and a child faking it look identical up on the witness stand. Therein lies the problem.

Before DNA..we relied on Lineups if we had a suspect...there were wrong identifications by the victims and there was outright lieing going on also....but if you got identified in a lineup by the victim...the lionshare of the time the prosector brought it to trial.
Dna has helped dramatically to lower the mistakes
 
I have tremendous sympathy for rape victims and hope they can heal and see justice. However, I have ZERO sympathy for anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape. Doing that to someone is almost as bad as raping them. It also hurts real rape victims because these kind of cases can plant a seed of doubt in real cases. It's very disturbing.

WRONG. I have been so charged. I was 18, she was 14 and I was scared, but I held my ground. I met her in a bar, she had fake ID from her cousin. We were never alone together as I was with another couple that took us to her home and dropped her off, late, about 1 am. Her parents were very upset that she had been out late and beat her until she admitted being with me at the bar. The police arrested me the next weekend as we had arrainged to meet there again then, to go to the beach. I spent 3 days in jail before making bail (property bond). The whole 'rape' story was BS but the charges were filed and I went to court. The case was dismissed due to lack of evidence, as by the tiral date she told the police/DA the truth, that there was no rape or intercourse at all, so the state had no case. I had the fortune of having witnesses and an honest 'victim', but no way I would plead out -ever.

That's awful. I'm really sorry you had to go through all that. Did the false victim try to do anything to make it up to you? Seriously, as soon as she reached adulthood, she should have done something like give you 20% of everything she earned for 20 years. It's not that that would make it all better, but it's something.
 
Its worse than that, actually. There are people on this forum, after having been told the immense number of innocent people found on death row, have said things to the tune of "Well, most of them are guilty, so I stand behind the death penalty."

That is down right ****ing scary.

but not at all surprising
 
but not at all surprising

No, unfortunately, not at all surprising.

It seems people think they are a "tough guy" if they support the death penalty. Just talk to someone whose loved one was falsely put to death who was later found post-mortem to be innocent and see if you still support it.
 
What do you mean "wrong?" What I said happens has been documented many times over. Just because it didn't happen to you does not mean it doesn't happen regularly.

False Rape Society: Young man falsely accused of rape tells False Rape Society his gripping story

The truth hurts rape liar - NYPOST.com

What I meant by WRONG is in response to this posted by YOU: "You've obviously never been around or have experience dealing with our "justice" system". Don't EVER tell me what I have experienced as YOU "obviously" do not know. I am sure that "justcie" is not perfect and that many get falsely accused (as I did), some of those even get falsely convicted but to assert that the "smart" thing to do is simply for the innocent to cop a plea to something and then HOPE, later, and on their own, without any "free" legal representation resources being supplied (as MUST be done for the initial criminal charges), that they may not suffer for that decision, and will somehow get it reversed (as in this very newsworthy RARE case) is insane. It is not easy to fight IRS either yet I have done that and largely prevailed as well. If we simply accept the power of 'authority' and take the path of least resistance then "we the sheeple" are all doomed. Remember that, in this country, WE are the gov't and can speak out, even from behind bars.
 
I have tremendous sympathy for rape victims and hope they can heal and see justice. However, I have ZERO sympathy for anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape. Doing that to someone is almost as bad as raping them. It also hurts real rape victims because these kind of cases can plant a seed of doubt in real cases. It's very disturbing.


The actual charges were brought as 'the state of XX vs. my name', and it is very hard to sue the state, as I discovered, especially since your 'damages', if not convicted are 'minor'. Even if you are convicted, the state has to represent the accuser, just as they have to supply you with legal council (a public defender), so it is hard to prove that the stated acted 'incorrectly' by simply bringing the charges.


That's awful. I'm really sorry you had to go through all that. Did the false victim try to do anything to make it up to you? Seriously, as soon as she reached adulthood, she should have done something like give you 20% of everything she earned for 20 years. It's not that that would make it all better, but it's something.

The 'accuser' in this case was really the parents, that were mad that they had no control over their childs behavior and after beating her (the real crime), but of course accusing me of having done that. I was surprised that the state did not include assault and battery in the charges and elevate it to a forcable rape charge. I think that even the responding officers could sense the real situation, but they filed the report and the police commissioner/DA decided to charge me with only 'statutory rape' a much lesser offense, based only on the actual age of the "victim".
 
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If Innocent people get executed wrongly then its just acceptable collateral damage..
 
If Innocent people get executed wrongly then its just acceptable collateral damage..

Collateral damage? So this poor guy in jail for10 years for nothing was ok because some judge sentenced someone to death? Whose crimes do you want to collaterally pay for?

This is why we shouldn't have the death penalty - and this is why false accusations that destroy someone's life should be met with hellfire.
 
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An update:

Woman who recanted rape claim likely to keep $750,000 settlement - latimes.com

No - they still haven't decided if they're going to press charges against her.
AND she doesn't even have to pay back the $750K

That's such bull****! It's bad enough that we toss innocent people in jail - but when they get out and don't receive any attempt at compensation or reconciliation I'm just floored. . . Justice? For who? Why does it stop being a concern?

Is there a trust fund or charity for him? I'll donate.
 
If Innocent people get executed wrongly then its just acceptable collateral damage..

No, that's completely unacceptable. I can recommend a book by an attorney named Barry Scheck named Actual Innocence. It shows how we often get it wrong. It's shocking.
 
An update:

Woman who recanted rape claim likely to keep $750,000 settlement - latimes.com

No - they still haven't decided if they're going to press charges against her.
AND she doesn't even have to pay back the $750K

That's such bull****! It's bad enough that we toss innocent people in jail - but when they get out and don't receive any attempt at compensation or reconciliation I'm just floored. . . Justice? For who? Why does it stop being a concern?

Is there a trust fund or charity for him? I'll donate.

That's appalling. If anything, she should have to give that money to the man she falsely accused and then do some time herself. I'm so disgusted by this case.
 
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