Comments on: Raising the sex-assault conviction rate

By: aflapr

aflapr — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:53:36 +0000

Something that’s often overlooked in the discussion of sexual assault in the military is that Congress already tried this. Look at the 2008 amendments to the Uniform Code of Military Justice that included an unconstitutional burden shift to the defense to prove the victim was not substantially incapacitated…Here’s the NIMJBlog-CAAFLOG discussion of the issue: http://www.caaflog.com/2008/12/28/top-10-military-justice-stories-of-2008-6-a-military-judge-rules-that-the-new-article-120-is-unconstitutional/

By: ras

ras — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:05:41 +0000

“We’re convicting 100% of the guilty and none of the innocent.”

“We gotta get the conviction rate up!”

By: En Passant

En Passant — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:44:53 +0000

Unfortunately, neither New Zealand Herald article discusses the political etiology of this Tweedledum and Tweedledee battle.

But it reeks the distinct aroma of the misandrist “patriarchal war on women” political rhetoric that we in the USA have experienced from soi disant “feminists” for decades.

By: wfjag

wfjag — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:23:12 +0000

Guess they’ve never heard of Randy Mills.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Tennessee_Man_Exonerated_of_Rape_after_Serving_11_Years.php

or, don’t care, if they have heard.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:43:34 +0000

Wouldn’t it be simpler to dispense with the trial and go straight to the punishment?

By: Jonah

Jonah — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:10:53 +0000

What you’ve got to realize is that jailing men is now a virtue in itself.