That’s interesting. Just anecdotes but the two families I know where the kids have been murdered but not the spouse it’s been the father who did it.

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Lots of sexual assault survivors would gladly trade a somewhat lighter sentence for not having to go through the secondary trauma of being cross examined, even if in a separate room.

Yeeeeah I think I listened to that song on repeat for like three months.

THANK YOU. As I was reading this post I was like “ummmmm no, I need to go find some pictures from Romeo + Juliet to post because that boy was mighty. god. damn. fine.”

My recollection is that he himself has said that the character he’s played who most resembles himself is Will in About a Boy. And Will is...a spoiled childish asshole. So yeah.

Not really, though, because the DNC, party members, and public at large only have an interest in a delegate there represents the interests they’ve been elected to represent. They have no interest in Joe Schmoe in particular representing those interests. So since there are alternate delegates at the ready to fill in…

In privates organizations and even public ones quick decisions have to be made, people are sent home with or without pay, and temporary measures are taken so the alleged victim and the alleged perpetrator don’t have to be in the same place, etc. The accused doesn’t get “all the norms of American due process” before…

Am I suggesting what didn’t happen?

The DNC doesn’t need access to those things if its goal is to make a determination as quickly as possible based on evidence accessible during that time period. It’s not a criminal investigation, there are minimal costs at stake. As long as their policy is laid out in advance, people are free to not be delegates if…

No one has a legal right to be a delegate at a convention, so honestly I don’t care if it’s an abbreviated investigation. As long as the policy is laid out in advance, it can be “in less than 24 hours we’ll interview the accuser, accused, and any witnesses, and then determine based on that whether the evidence…

As was already discussed upthread, the hotel could do something as simple as reserving their right in their contract to boot someone if a police report is filed claiming they committed assault/sexual assault/rape etc. while staying at the hotel. They are a private entity and as long as the guest signed onto the policy…

They don’t have to, though. There is no reason the police have to be involved in either the hotel or the DNC’s decision.

The comment that is the parent to this entire comment thread is talking about the hotel.

Yes, that’s what this entire comment thread has been about.

At a convention for a private organization a “proper investigation” is whatever level of investigation their policies call for.

HR departments and university administrations also aren’t police forces, but since the alleged perpetrator would be kicked out a convention he has no right to attend in the first place and not deprived of life or liberty as a result of the investigation, it doesn’t matter.

But the hotel isn’t “in charge” of your guilt or innocence, they’re simply “in charge” of whether or not you get to stay, which they would be anyway and all you could do about it is ask for a refund. The hotel isn’t deciding if you go to jail or have a criminal record, and if they put in their agreement that it’s…

Sure, but since no one is legally entitled to be a delegate there is no legal reason they can’t have a policy providing for an expedited process.

I think my point has gone over your head, because you seem to think I’m arguing that he should have been immediately arrested when that’s not even close to my point. The point is that the evidentiary burden met before removing someone from a hotel room that they don’t have a constitutional right to be in should not be…