[SauronOfMordor]

You know what I find truly amazing is that us juries actually have been able to convict people of crimes like that of rape before we even knew how to test for DNA.

And some respectable number of those convictions based on nothing more than the woman's say-so, turned out to be false.

[Burkean]

It was just reported on Fox that the woman's dancing comapanion does not believe the accueser's story and that the woman was under the influence of drugs that night.

I think the case died last week but the DA is trying to save some face.

[AnAmericanMother]

And some respectable number of those convictions based on nothing more than the woman's say-so, turned out to be false.

. . . and that is why in most jurisdictions there cannot be a conviction for rape merely on the woman's say-so. There must be some quantum of corroboration (how much and what kind varies from state to state.)

It does show that the problem of false accusations of rape has been recognized in the law for a long time.

I do wonder what sort of corroboration this DA plans to offer to the GJ, given that his much-touted DNA testing has come a cropper.