Comments on: 32 years later https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:16:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8166 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:16:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8166 Daubert?

]]> By: markm https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8165 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:12:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8165 LAN3: On the science fiction series Babylon 5, there was a very short preliminary hearing on such a suit in the space station’s courts, quickly recessed until such time as an interpreter could be found for the gray alien defendant, who communicaated by something like projecting images of geometric shapes. This wasn’t pursued any further, it was just a comic sideshow – but the actor playing the judge did a very good job of staying in judicial character while obviously thinking, “Why did this case land on my docket?”

]]> By: Ryan Frank https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8164 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:51:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8164 I can’t believe he got an indictment with a 7 MONTH window on the time period of the alleged crime. Nice way of making any sort of alibi impossible… if he spent any of those months out of the area, oops, I guess the crime didn’t happen then.

]]> By: jkoerner https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8163 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:46:46 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8163 The article I read about this said that the DA charged him in the indictment with raping her at some time during a 7 month or so period, like April through October of that year. Apparently the “victim” could not remember an exact date (or approximate month). I have no idea how a prosecutor can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant raped the “victim” if the “memories” (and sole evidence) the charges are based on basically boil down to: “well he did not rape me during the Christmas season.”

]]> By: KDP https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8162 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:07:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8162 I take it that the statute of limitation (or lack of)in this case applies within Rhode Island?

How long before all crimes have no statute of limitation? That gumball I stole when I was four could land me in prison.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8161 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:28:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8161 LAN3,

Sad but true.

]]> By: LAN3 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/07/32-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-8160 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:18:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5095#comment-8160 If repressed memories are what passes for science in court these days, I predict that the day we first make contact with alien beings, immediately following which some plaintiff’s attorney hits them with a class-action suit by loads of rural dwellers, alleging kidnapping and sexual assault. If they have a budget to travel through interstellar space, they must have some seriously deep pockets.

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