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MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/30/2023 5:34:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

This is what passes for an MSNBC legal "analyst." On Jonathan Capehart's Saturday morning show, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said that cross-examining people who claim to be sexual assault victims, such as Trump accuser E. Jean Caroll, is a "disservice."

Kirschner grudgingly acknowledged that the Sixth Amendment—that inconvenient thing!—gives defendants the right to confront and cross-examine their accusers. But Kirschner said that as a former prosecutor, it was "heartbreaking" for him to see sexual assault victims "falsely accused of making stories up."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; ejeancarroll; msnbc; sixthamendment; trump
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1 posted on 04/30/2023 5:34:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; ...

What if Tara Reade, who has accused Joe Biden of having sexually assaulted her, decided to bring suit? Think Kirschner would go on MSNBC to bemoan the right of Biden’s lawyers to cross-examine her? Rhetorical question.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 04/30/2023 5:35:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bet Kirshner would have no problem with the cross-examination of Tara Reade.


3 posted on 04/30/2023 5:39:33 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Exactly.


4 posted on 04/30/2023 5:40:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

can’t even remember the year....


5 posted on 04/30/2023 5:41:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said that cross-examining people who claim to be sexual assault victims, such as Trump accuser E. Jean Caroll, is a “disservice.””

Unless the victim is a Conservative accusing a Liberal of sexual assault then multiple doses of truth serum is AOK.


6 posted on 04/30/2023 5:45:54 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Mr. Mojo

Kirshner’s Kangaroo Kourt.


7 posted on 04/30/2023 5:50:05 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

To the msm- As they say “ahhh shaddap ya wankers”-


8 posted on 04/30/2023 5:54:15 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So it should be a “dis-service” to cross examine Tara Reade right?


9 posted on 04/30/2023 5:54:53 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

bet this lady kept a diary...at least a daybook...which is how she was able to write the book...read the book...i think likely plenty of evidence that a daybook was kept.


10 posted on 04/30/2023 5:54:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser

F***ing nutcase.

11 posted on 04/30/2023 5:56:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Even though there is no evidence, the seriousness of the charge is what matters–Thomas Foley (D, WA)"

We seem to be back to this crap.
12 posted on 04/30/2023 5:59:41 AM PDT by The Louiswu (You cannot free a man from the chains which he reveres.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She is clearly a mental nutcase.


13 posted on 04/30/2023 6:00:02 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Mr. Mojo

Sometimes the story IS made up. E. Jean Carroll has provided conflicting testimony in the court of public opinion, and there is no known physical evidence that ANYTHING has ever happened.

False memories, engendered by the #MeToo movement, maybe?


14 posted on 04/30/2023 6:00:06 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That ‘legal analyst’ would have been a hoot in the Juanita Broaddrick vs Clinton trials, which never occurred because democrats reversed that crime into Clinton being the victim.

Broaddrick was actually very convincing against Clinton, and there is no doubt that Clinton did rape her.

But, the real problem is that, when it comes to democrat criminals, they have all been protected by the left-wing media and fellow democrats in congress. The mean ‘real victims’ are now being prosecuted by the ‘real criminals’. It’s an upside-down world now.


15 posted on 04/30/2023 6:03:53 AM PDT by adorno
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah because you’d hate for someone to be caught in a lie


16 posted on 04/30/2023 6:05:15 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, I mean Trump should have no avenues to use to prove his innocence. It just ain’t fair.


17 posted on 04/30/2023 6:06:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I just watched one of those crime shows where a district attorney was laying out the requirements to pursue a rape conviction. He had DNA evidence, but he said that was not enough because he said the guy could maintain it was consensual.

This woman has no evidence, can’t even narrow it down to the year it happened. All she has is a fake emotional distress on the witness stand.


18 posted on 04/30/2023 6:08:31 AM PDT by odawg
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Well, if that’s the case, who would bring on her case?

As I understand it, there were no witnesses.

Does anyone know if the photo of her and her husband posing with Trump, took place before or after the alleged rape?


19 posted on 04/30/2023 6:13:33 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The truth is toxic to the left. They will go to any lengths to avoid and suppress it. It’s their kryptonite.


20 posted on 04/30/2023 6:21:09 AM PDT by Spok
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