well let me be more clear and maybe we were just talking past each other. You said she had a weak case. If you mean it in assessing in the sense that Gore will probably pay a bunch of lawyers and get off. I agree that is likely the outcome.
But the first threshold is whether this even goes to trial. A really weak case would not make it that far. I think there is enough evidence (from what we’ve heard) including DNA evidence that I see this going to a trial. That’s why I don’t consider it a “weak case”. The wild card is the judge.
"It's like being the ultimate traitor," the woman said. One friend "was basically asking me to just suck it up, otherwise the world's going to be destroyed from global warming," she said.
Yes, I think we were focusing on different aspects of the case.
Your assessment that there is sufficient evidence for a trial, based on DNA ‘residue’ on her slacks, plus her narrative, I agree with. Convictions have been secured with less.
I just don’t see the likelihood of a conviction in a location that will be so deferential and favorable to the Green Guru, when the principal evidence of a crime is the victim’s verbal testimony against the defendant’s verbal testimony. We know he lies. His entire status and notoriety right now is based on bold faced lies. It will not phase him one bit to take the stand and lie about the incident. This is before we even get to a potential defense of intoxication, if it is allowed in Oregon.
I am reminded of Paula Jones. She would have been utterly crushed but for the floodgates opening of other victims of Clinton’s predations. Perhaps this could happen here.
We shall see. But this will indeed prove to have been a very expensive chakra to release. He really should have kept that poodle on its leash. I wonder if Tipper has had it fixed in the intervening years.