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Do you give the rapist an alibi for a cime he didn't commit?

Do you give the rapist an alibi for a cime he didn't commit?

  • Yes, you tell the truth and he goes free.

    Votes: 11 64.7%
  • No, you let him be wrongfully convicted because he should have been convicted of the other crime.

    Votes: 6 35.3%

  • Total voters
    17
That's not what you said. You said he was innocent. Not that he was innocent on the crime that he is being tried on.

I think you are have a very little understanding of how it feels to see your daughter get raped. People will feel a mixture of guilt, they will get hurt and they will get really angry. You don't seem to take this into account at all. We are not machines, we are humans with feelings. Not everyone feels comfortable helping the rapist who raped your daughter. Why is that so hard to understand?


I understand the human drive for vengence....however, we are not animals....humans also have a thing called morality that keeps the vengence drive in check. It is a human emotion to feel anger and hatred....it is a higher morality that calls for control.
 
.... I think you are have a very little understanding of how it feels to see your daughter get raped. People will feel a mixture of guilt, they will get hurt and they will get really angry. You don't seem to take this into account at all. We are not machines, we are humans with feelings. Not everyone feels comfortable helping the rapist who raped your daughter. ....

That's why I said it's human to not want to help the rapist. However, by staying silent and getting him convicted of a crime he didn't commit, you're simultaneously helping the real murderer get away with it. That would hurt the family of the murder victim. That's the reason I'm for speaking up, though I completely understand why someone might keep quiet.
 
Taking into account that my family[me and my daughter] were positive this person raped my daughter...and for whatever reason[I dont really know what that could be....] the rapist could not be charged and tried for the rape; the rapist would not be sitting in the restaurant and I most likely would have been hearing the news of the murder investagation from prison...

Not if you do it the right way.
 
There have been a lot of great replies to this thread. Thanks. My first instinct was to keep my mouth shut. However, the fact that a murderer would go free was what changed my view. I would have to speak up. I would probably talk to the guy and tell him I would provide him his alibi if he owned up to the rape. That would be a bluff that I would hope would make him come clean. If it didn't, however, I would still come forward.

I also disagree that a person who keeps quiet is just as bad as a rapist. I think keeping quiet is a very human thing to do.

The problem with that is when he confesses to the rape in court, the judge will ask him if he was promised anything or coereced in any way to confess and he will have to say yes.

You gave him something he wanted for the confession, so the judge would beleive him.

I am sure he would rather confess to a rape than be convicted of a murder. Any criminal would.

That is how I see it anyway.
 
If people insist on living with a clean mind in this situation then: write an annonymous letter and send it in . . . . likely not admissible but it being truthful exhonerates, annonymous exempts.

annonymous = crackpot

The police toss those types of letters.
 
I am sure he would rather confess to a rape than be convicted of a murder. Any criminal would.

Maybe, maybe not. It would depend on the circumstances of either case. Rapists, especially child rapists, have a real tough time in prison.
 
However, by staying silent and getting him convicted of a crime he didn't commit, you're simultaneously helping the real murderer get away with it.

You know, I hadn't considered that part. That makes me seriously re-evaluate my answer. I'd have to think about it real hard in that case.
 
Acting immorally so that an immoral person gets convicted, even if its for a crime that they didn't actually commit? Sorry.....immoral is immoral.
 
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