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To: Strategerist
I'm not in favor of the press hectoring the victims asking about it but I always wonder how they deal with the mistaken IDs mentally.

I am. An innocent man lost half his adult life because of this woman. I want her, the cops, and the prosecution held to account. If that means reporters camped out on their front lawns for the next 5 years, so be it.

5 posted on 04/16/2008 7:35:17 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Vote McCain - The Choice who Sucks Less!)
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To: lesser_satan
I am. An innocent man lost half his adult life because of this woman. I want her, the cops, and the prosecution held to account.

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.

14 posted on 04/16/2008 7:42:13 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: lesser_satan
I want her, the cops, and the prosecution held to account

I have a good friend who quit being a public defender because of the lies of the cops and prosecution. Another friend of mine had his life and health ruined over an idiot prosecutor who tried him with bogus evidence. He is dead now.

If this guy has a case, he should sue the pants off of the idiots who made his life agony. Ruin their lives, the way they ruined his.

23 posted on 04/16/2008 7:47:29 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: lesser_satan
I am. An innocent man lost half his adult life because of this woman. I want her, the cops, and the prosecution held to account. If that means reporters camped out on their front lawns for the next 5 years, so be it.

There is no such thing as an "innocent" man. He may not have been guilty of this crime, but we're all guilty of doing things or at least thinking things that are wrong.

Maybe he just wasn't punished for the right wrong, but it still might be right that he was punished. At least it wasn't wrong in that sense.

49 posted on 04/16/2008 8:01:50 PM PDT by tear gas (Because of the 22nd Amendment, we are losing President. Bush. Can we afford to lose him now?)
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