[Newsbot]

Title: Judge appears to blame victim in sexual-assault case
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: hurley_108
Date: 2011-02-24 18:59:18
Canadian

[hurley_108]

This is, I'm sure everyone will agree, patentely disgusting. No means no, no matter what. I hope this is swiftly appealed and reversed with stern rebuke to this judge.

[Guy_Fawkes]

I have been looking and cant find a hell of a lot on this judge.

[Freakinoldguy]

The more I hear about the judicial system, the more I become convinced that my impressions about it are fact and not just a hypothesis.

These clowns on the bench are making decisions that defy logic and it isn't just in a couple of cases but appears to be endemic to the whole system.

[GreenTiger]

I guess "no" or "non" might not have been clear enough.

This judge is a disgrace.

[ShepherdsDog]

Yet people defend Julian Assange.

[CrazyNewfie]

What a disgrace, what is this going say to young men? It's ok if she says no, as long as she's dressed a certain way???

This is why one persons opinion shouldn't be the final say. Just because this asshole is a judge doesn't make him right, he is still human and subject to his own prejudices. IMO he should be fired, he just let a rapist go free, a traumatized woman left wondering wtf where's my justice, and the Canadian publics trust in the justice system wavering at best.

[Brenda]

$1:

“This is a different case than one where there is no perceived invitation,” the Free Press quoted the judge as saying. “This is a case of misunderstood signals and inconsiderate behaviour.”

Absolutely. He shouldn't have touched her. As far as I am concerned, she could have performed a lap dance on him, naked. Still does not give him the right to touch her.
Inconsiderate behaviour that is called "rape".

[PJB]

this decision makes me sick! There is a precedent being set here and it's not a good one. The guy RAPED her plain and simple. Sex on a backroad is not sex it's rape. I don't care if she was wearing a see through outfit she said NO and No means No! Not you were dressed like you wanted it! I have a daughter that is only 12 and I truly hope that society will come around by the time she is old enough to go out and meet jerks like this moron.

[Newsbot]

Title: Judge criticized for saying clothing factored in rape
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2011-02-25 08:45:14
Canadian

[Scape]

What year is it, 2011? Could have fooled me.

[andyt]

PJB PJB:

Sex on a backroad is not sex it's rape.

Uh oh!

[Yogi]

In a previous impact statement, the victim said that she still bears a scar on her knee from that night.


The judge rejected the suggestion that the victim had consented,

Just with the above, how the hell did the judge reach the conclusion that he did???

[andyt]

Yogi Yogi:

In a previous impact statement, the victim said that she still bears a scar on her knee from that night.

Just with the above, how the hell did the judge reach the conclusion that he did???

Where did you get that from? I tried to find more background about this story, but found nothing.

[Yogi]

andyt andyt:

Yogi Yogi:

In a previous impact statement, the victim said that she still bears a scar on her knee from that night.

Just with the above, how the hell did the judge reach the conclusion that he did???

Where did you get that from? I tried to find more background about this story, but found nothing.

In the original article. First story link