You have a woman that's suffered a violent rape. Not certain what you mean, but I've noticed people have trouble processing the idea that the rape victim wasn't deliberately lying - she made a mistake.
Based on the pic the guy released was black. I strongly suspect the victim was white.
Studies have actually shown that people have difficulty telling people of other races apart; most, but not all, of these cases are white women raped by black men, with the victim making a mistaken ID.
So you have a psychologically shaken and violent women being shown mugbooks by the police (who just want a conviction as fast as possible) who routinely "Steer" the victims to making an ID.
These victims come to genuinely believe they're certain about the IDs. They don't do this maliciously and cavalierly.
Let's face it - any rape trial where the victim IDs the attacker, the defendant doesn't have a prayer.
The people at fault are 1) the police 2) the prosecution and 3) juries, that don't understand the mountain of psychological research documenting the inaccuracy of eyewitnesses to crimes.
The rape victims end up victimized twice.
Alright, fair enough. I still want SOMEBODY, like the cops or prosecutors, to suffer for this, though.
People who make mistakes are still liable. To say it was a mistake doesn’t mean there can’t be consequences for making the mistake. You’re an accountant and you make an honest bookkeeping mistake that loses a million dollars, you still get investigated and maybe lose your job.
People get taken to court for making mistakes all the time. It may be accidental or unintentional, but they are still responsible.
When questioned on the stand, she should have told the truth...that she wasn’t sure. Instead she lied and said it was definitely him. I’m a woman, and while I sympathize for what she went through, it was her words that wrongly convicted an innocent man.
I'm amazed that so many have so little sense.
Picking up conditioner, when you wanted shampoo, is a MISTAKE.
Making a false accusation (bearing false witness) is not a mistake.
If a victim is so traumatized that a miscarriage of justice like this can occur, I'd say that calls their fitness to ID the perp into question.
Victim, my @ss...was she competent to testify, or not?