How would anyone know this? Unfortunately in cases with only he-said-she-said evidence, credibility of the suspect and witness would be called into play.
Here in Pittsburgh, the Steelers Ben Roethlisberger rape case, it’s exactly that. He apparently had concensual sex with a casino employee back in July 2008. Exactly one year later, she filed a civil suit against him claiming she was raped. She never filed a criminal complaint against him but a year later when she realized he didn’t want any part of her anymore, she thought she could get something out of him.
Despite his lawyers tesifying with emails between her and another employee proving she was loon and hoped to have a “Baby Ben” from the incident and also he reputation for being a clingy psycho (she had an affair with a married man months before this), the judge is not throwing out the case.
>How would anyone know this? Unfortunately in cases with only he-said-she-said evidence, credibility of the suspect and witness would be called into play.
My point EXACTLY!! Rape is horrible, and IMO should be a capital offense; therefore I do not ascribe to the ‘degrees of guilt’ philosophy regarding it and consider it to be a life-or-death style matter.
>Here in Pittsburgh, the Steelers Ben Roethlisberger rape case, it’s exactly that. He apparently had concensual sex with a casino employee back in July 2008. Exactly one year later, she filed a civil suit against him claiming she was raped.
It seems to me that the biblical definition of rape is sounding better and better. (ie, it wasn’t rape unless she screamed and/or fought back.)
>She never filed a criminal complaint against him but a year later when she realized he didn’t want any part of her anymore, she thought she could get something out of him.
That’s circumstantial, at best.
>Despite his lawyers tesifying with emails between her and another employee proving she was loon and hoped to have a “Baby Ben” from the incident
BANG! There it is. Raped women, as a rule, do not hope to get a baby out of being raped. Though there are some who realize that the child is NOT their attacker and don’t punish the child for sins they didn’t have any part in.
>and also he reputation for being a clingy psycho (she had an affair with a married man months before this), the judge is not throwing out the case.
*shrug* - The jury, however, should [IMO] acquit on basis of the expressed hope for a baby.