iHeart Posted October 2, 2020 Report Share Posted October 2, 2020 Good god https://tvline.com/2020/10/01/kimberly-guilfoyle-fox-news-exit-sexual-harassment-allegations/ Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted November 24, 2020 Report Share Posted November 24, 2020 Cas Anvar - The Expanse(see TV Thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FrostyWinnipeg Posted April 30 Report Share Posted April 30 https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/mlb-puts-roberto-alomar-ineligible-list-reviewing-sexual-misconduct-allegation/ Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iHeart Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 I know there was a separate thread for this but I can't find it...besides I think it's locked Tracker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 2 hours ago, iHeart said: I know there was a separate thread for this but I can't find it...besides I think it's locked Proving, once again, how screwed up the American legal system is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 Cosby due for $$$ now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlue4ever Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 (edited) Before people react to Cosby without reading the story, legally it makes sense. In 2005 prosecutors could have charged him criminally, but questioned whether they had a reasonable likelihood of conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. They determined that they did not, so they chose not to charge him. This was a tactic to expose him in a civil suit. If he was charged criminally he could plead the fifth (refuse to testify) in the civil case on the grounds that it could incriminate him criminally. Without the threat of criminal prosecution, he could not exercise his right to plead the fifth as he did not face that legal jeopardy, and refusing to testify in the civil case in that instance would be considered contempt of court and he could be jailed for keeping silent. So he was forced to the stand for a deposition with a lower burden of proof and give evidence against himself. It was that deposition’s evidence that was unsealed in 2014 and then used to justify the criminal charges being laid. Two trials and one hung jury later, Cosby was convicted. So the court is saying you can’t force someone to testify against their right to silence by avoiding criminal charges, and then use that testimony to engage in criminal charges. Procedural gobbledegook, but actually protects people from forced self-incrimination criminally. Edited June 30 by TrueBlue4ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 45 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said: Before people react to Cosby without reading the story, legally it makes sense. In 2005 prosecutors could have charged him criminally, but questioned whether they had a reasonable likelihood of conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. They determined that they did not, so they chose not to charge him. This was a tactic to expose him in a civil suit. If he was charged criminally he could plead the fifth (refuse to testify) in the civil case on the grounds that it could incriminate him criminally. Without the threat of criminal prosecution, he could not exercise his right to plead the fifth as he did not face that legal jeopardy, and refusing to testify in the civil case in that instance would be considered contempt of court and he could be jailed for keeping silent. So he was forced to the stand for a deposition with a lower burden of proof and give evidence against himself. It was that deposition’s evidence that was unsealed in 2014 and then used to justify the criminal charges being laid. Two trials and one hung jury later, Cosby was convicted. So the court is saying you can’t force someone to testify against their right to silence by avoiding criminal charges, and then use that testimony to engage in criminal charges. Procedural gobbledegook, but actually protects people from forced self-incrimination criminally. But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined Wednesday that Cosby’s conviction in a second trial ― after the first ended in a hung jury ― was invalid. The court found that Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, who initiated Cosby’s arrest, was obligated to stand by a promise his predecessor had made not to charge Cosby, though there is no evidence that promise was ever put in writing, The Associated Press reported. The predecessor who made that promise to Cosby was Bruce Castor, who defended former President Donald Trump ― another man with dozens of sexual misconduct allegations against him ― in his second impeachment trial. Money talked and a predator walked. FrostyWinnipeg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlue4ever Posted June 30 Report Share Posted June 30 It’s not just that a promise was walked back though. That promise crashed a legal dynamic where Cosby was forced to answer civilly for a claim without Fifth Amendment protection , which he would have had if criminal charges existed. Then they used the evidence from that hearing as a basis for laying criminal charges and as evidence against him criminally later. Kind of an entrapment scenario - he is forced to do something under threat of jail if he does not comply, then what he does is held against him as a way to get him into jail. The facts are abhorrent and I make no excuses for the man, but everyone is entitled to due process and he was not really given that, as I understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted August 25 Report Share Posted August 25 Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been indicted in Los Angeles on more than 30 counts of sexual assault stemming from allegations made by more than 20 women that span the last quarter-century, prosecutors said https://ktla.com/news/local-news/adult-film-star-ron-jeremy-indicted-in-l-a-on-more-than-30-counts-of-sexual-assault/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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