I wish you would quite saying there was simply no evidence.
YES THERE WAS...
“Mr. Maco said he had drawn up an arrest warrant for Mr. Allen but decided not to pursue the case because he wanted to spare Dylan the trauma of a trial. He said Ms. Farrow had agreed that dropping the charges was in her daughter’s best interest. When asked if he had enough evidence to convince a jury that Mr. Allen was guilty, he said: “Arguably, I do.”
“It was the role in Roman Polanski’s creepy 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby which launched Farrow’s acting career. Ironically, this was also the movie that ended her relationship with Frank Sinatra — she had got together with him when she was 19 and he was 48 (leading to lots of cradle-snatching jokes, particularly by the comic Jackie Mason, until bullets were delivered to Mason’s hotel room). “http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/drama-and-deceit-mark-mia-farrows-incredible-life-245542.html
Yeah because no prosecutor has EVER tried to drum up personal attention in the media....
I think the Duke Men’s Lacrosse Team would beg to differ.
BTW, you might want to read this:
“A panel of the Statewide Grievance Committee, which has authority over lawyers’ licenses, on Wednesday recommended dismissing Allen’s complaint against Litchfield County State’s Attorney Frank Maco.
But while recommending the charges be dropped, the panel’s 19-page, single- spaced decision nevertheless was sharply critical of Maco’s actions.
The panel chastised Maco for his performance at a September 1993 press conference in which he announced he would not prosecute Allen on sex abuse charges, but said he had enough evidence to justify an arrest.
At that press conference, the panel found, Maco’s statements ``clearly allowed reasonable people to conclude that [Maco] was saying that [Allen] was factually guilty.’’
``We are highly critical of [Maco’s] lack of sensitivity, in this case, to the concept of the presumption of innocence.,’’ the three-member panel said. ``It is a deeply rooted principle in our society that an individual is protected against a label of guilt without first having a fair opportunity to defend within the justice system. . . . It is important that officers of the court help maintain the public’s confidence in the integrity of the justice system.’’