You think the Brock Turner sentence is the norm?
You think the Brock Turner sentence is the norm?
Your murder analogy is silly. A rape victim still has her life. The victim of a false rape accusation will spend years in prison, and likely be raped himself.
“You can always fight a false accusation (and often win), but you can’t go back in time and not be raped. That’s the major difference as I see it.”
Tell the Scottsboro Boys about misogyny. Or Harper Lee.
Rarely are rape “victims” (whether actual or not) explicitly attacked as liars. There must be a motive to lie for a defense attorney to take that perilous path. People don’t like to believe that someone would deliberately lie under those circumstances. So, the general strategy is to question whether the victim is…
Tell that to Lawrence McKinney. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/tenn-man-fights-1-million-compensation-31-years-jail-article-1.2909683
The charges were dropped. How about if it had proceeded to trial and the jurors did what feminists tell them to do: always believe the accuser?
The Scottsboro Boys would probably agree as well as Harper Lee.
Perhaps you will be comforted to know that a false accusation of rape today only leads to an innocent man being imprisoned. At one time, a false accusation of rape against a black man from the likes of Victoria Price, Ruby Bates, or Mayella Ewell carried with it a far harsher penalty than imprisonment.