A functioning justice system should account for and respond to an untrustworthy witness in order to protect the many more witnesses who will tell the truth
In the Duke Lacrosse case, it appears to have been pure politics.
Thanks for the correction on the standard (it is indeed “undue” not “substantial”), I was getting confused with RFRA.
In the US, those religious assholes are entitled to a job under the exact same law as women are.
Schedule accommodations are a very common form of religious accommodation which may be required by US law.
They’re very similar situations. Under US law, if the business (pharmacy or airline) can meet its customers with no more than a minimal burden needs while allowing the religious accommodation for its employees, it must accommodate the employee.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to employees. If the airline can reasonably accommodate Ms. Stanley’s religiously motivated request without a substantial burden, it must do so. Elected officials, like Ms. Davis, aren’t employees by definition, and thus aren’t covered by Title VII.
The Charlie Chan character is a lot more complex than Mr. Yunioshi. Compare Yunte Huang’s take with this panel hosted by George Takei.
‘Yes, it is a bar, a bar on wheels.’”
Great article.
We’re talking about two protests by uncoordinated groups. The Seattle group said they would protest any candidate they had access to. Stop with the persecution complex.
Black people aren’t systematically oppressed because they don’t have money; they don’t have money because they are systemically oppressed, because the American voting public is in favor of them being so.
Look at pages 21-24 of the court decision.
Source. She pled guilty after police extracted a false confession of her false report. After suing, she received a $150,000 settlement.
Sure, which is where the silly numbers like 40% or even 90% come from. But the studies that produced the 2-8% figure did exclude them.
The conviction rate for federal criminal prosecution is not equivalent to the likelihood that the defendant was factually guilty. Federal sentencing guidelines are draconian and there are substantial incentives to plead guilty rather than fight the charges.
That’s exactly backwards. “Accusers who delayed reporting, aren’t cooperating with police or even when police don’t have enough evidence” are specifically excluded from being labeled “false reports” for the 2-8% figure.
From the paper the author cited:
... 2-8 percent of the reports made to the police are later proven to have been made by somebody who knew that the person they were accusing was innocent. And when you consider that many victims choose not to go to the police at all, the ratio of people who have actually experienced sexual assault to people who have…