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Cosby's trial is the fist one in the wake of "me too." Will "me too" have an impact on the outcome?

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Cosby's trial is the fist one in the wake of "me too." Will "me too" have an impact on the outcome?

I don't know the answer to the title question, but I'll find out in a few minutes what the verdict is.


Update:
He was convicted of whatever the charges were.

I guess "me too" had some impact, though, AFAIK, the evidence presented the second time round was quite different.
 
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Xelor said:
I don't know the answer to the title question, but I'll find out in a few minutes what the verdict is.
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GUILTY on three counts.
 
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haymarket said:
GUILTY on three counts.
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Wow. I’m not sure I was expecting that. Good news.
 
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Anyone crave a JELLO?
 
Re: Cosby's trial is the fist one in the wake of "me too." Will "me too" have an impact on the outc

Xelor said:
I don't know the answer to the title question, but I'll find out in a few minutes what the verdict is.


Update:
He was convicted of whatever the charges were.

I guess "me too" had some impact, though, AFAIK, the evidence presented the second time round was quite different.
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I would hope not, because juries should not be returning verdicts based on the influence of social trends.

(It doesn't mean they never do. But they most certainly shouldn't.)
 
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Harshaw said:
I would hope not, because juries should not be returning verdicts based on the influence of social trends.

(It doesn't mean they never do. But they most certainly shouldn't.)
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Juries shouldn't. Guilty is guilty, nonnegotiable.
Sentencing might reflect public standards, though.
 
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Grand Mal said:
Juries shouldn't. Guilty is guilty, nonnegotiable.
Sentencing might reflect public standards, though.
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That juries "should not" is a normative assertion; however, when 12 jurors arrive at a verdict, unless there clearly was jury "foul play," jurists are not remotely keen to vacate or overturn their decision on account of a supposition that the jurors considered something other than (1) facts, (2) deductively sound inferences drawn from them and/or (3) inductively cogent inferences drawn from the facts.
 
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Xelor said:
That juries "should not" is a normative assertion; however, when 12 jurors arrive at a verdict, unless there clearly was jury "foul play," jurists are not remotely keen to vacate or overturn their decision on account of a supposition that the jurors considered something other than (1) facts, (2) deductively sound inferences drawn from them and/or (3) inductively cogent inferences drawn from the facts.
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Ohferchristsake.
I'll you something, bud, I don't have a clue what you're talking about and I don't believe for a minute you have either. If you want, when I have a bit more time we can dissect this post sentence by sentence and hope the post-mortem will shine a light on what brought it on. In the meantime muse on this- If you can't explain yourself in simple terms you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
 
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Grand Mal said:
Ohferchristsake.
I'll you something, bud, I don't have a clue what you're talking about and I don't believe for a minute you have either. If you want, when I have a bit more time we can dissect this post sentence by sentence and hope the post-mortem will shine a light on what brought it on. In the meantime muse on this- If you can't explain yourself in simple terms you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Grand Mal said:
I don't have a clue what you're talking about and I don't believe for a minute you have either.
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A dictionary and a basic understanding of logic is all one should need to comprehend my remark.

Use the tools above and then reread my remarks:
Xelor said:
That juries "should not" is a normative assertion; however, when 12 jurors arrive at a verdict, unless there clearly was jury "foul play," jurists are not remotely keen to vacate or overturn their decision on account of a supposition that the jurors considered something other than (1) facts, (2) deductively sound inferences drawn from them and/or (3) inductively cogent inferences drawn from the facts.
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