Rapist DSK not persecuted, charges dropped

[Tim Cornelis]

Former head of the IMF Strauss Kahn will not be persecuted because the credibility of the victim is doubted.

Recently in the news it was reported that the victim was indeed sexually assaulted according to the forensic investigators (or doctors, I dunno). I believe the research evidenced she hard marks in her throat, wrists and around her vagina.

But now the attorney general says he will not be persecuted because she is not credible. (was it because she had contact with a drug dealer? In that case it's a fallacy!

http://www.wfmz.com/business/Accuser...8/-/s3916gz/-/

[Nox]

Ad hominem in the legal system, wow.

[Tim Cornelis]

It's a little bit more nuanced than just having contact with a drug dealer:

They also say she has fabricated her income and even how many children she has to keep her housing and increase her tax refund.

Authorities also point to a conversation she had with a jailed drug dealer about how she could benefit monetarily from going forward with the case.

[Nox]

Why should credibility have anything to do with it, if I am murdered, me being a bad person has nothing to do with whether or not I was murdered...





EDIT: That's a pretty badly worded example, but you get the picture...

[Tim Cornelis]

Ok, turns out the notion that the called a drug dealer and said something about extorting money is false.

Here's what she actually said in the phone call:

“She said: ‘I didn’t know who he was. We fought each other. Because he wasn’t able to take off my clothes, he put his penis in my mouth. He touched me. They took me to the hospital, and they arrested him.’ ”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor..._credible.html

So, there is forensic evidence of what she claimed (marks in her throat) and yet the charges are being dropped.

[Nox]

Exactly, they are using her credibility to deny the validity of her case, which is wrong

[Rss]

What. I don't care if she gamed the system to make circumstances less miserable, rape is a rape. Rustling up some frontier justice on this bad apple would be in order.

[jake williams]

Thank goodness we have a free market in legal protection so we can achieve maximum allocative efficiency of justice.

[Os Cangaceiros]

This charge would be the least of his problems if there were any justice.

[Per Levy]

wow, lets hurt the victim even more. this makes me so angry, not that this wasnt to be expected, a rich ass with a shitload of connections will put these conections and money to work to protect his ass. and the victims fault was it that she was poor, awsome.

[Madslatter]

The scale is really the perfect symbol of capitalist justice.

[S.Artesian]

It's a little bit more nuanced than just having contact with a drug dealer:

Those things only matter when it's a rape case against a powerful, or connected, man. Otherwise, prosecutors routinely use as witnesses convicted criminals, liars, etc. etc. and secure convictions by using such witnesses.

I think we should declare 2011 the Year of the Rapist in NYC-- you get that cop who rapes the intoxicated woman in the East Village-- he beats the rape charge; we have this creep DSK proving once again what money can't buy doesn't matter; and we have another cop under arrest for raping a female teacher.

Wonderful. Maybe we can give Polanski the keys to the city; ask Kobe Bryant to teach sex education to school kids.

[Princess Luna]

Not surprised in the least, the only super wealthy people who are ever charged with a major crimes are
A.)Drug dealers and other crime lords
B.)Rich people who cause harm to other rich people
C.) Were the case is so slated in the direction of the victim, that to not give a guilty verdict would be obvious evidence of corruption, in this case the defendent will almost always get a rediclously easy sentence
I challange someone to find a case the contradicts my theory........

[Column No.4]

Have even half of you read what you posted? Of course the womans credibility would effect the validity of her case, sure he might have done it but if the woman has a history of fabricating rape stories and whatnot then her credibility is questionable and therefore her case. Add in the other evidence against her and shes not looking too good.

[Princess Luna]

Have even half of you read what you posted? Of course the womans credibility would effect the validity of her case, sure he might have done it but if the woman has a history of fabricating rape stories and whatnot then her credibility is questionable and therefore her case. Add in the other evidence against her and shes not looking too good.

He is one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, if his lawyers wanted they could "find" evidence that she is a reptillian, sent to earth to gather data before the invasion. First time of I heard about him being charged with rape, I knew her case would be crushed. In the game of "justice" the wealthy hold every card, and the poor are tossed a random garbage pail kid card, it doesn't matter you can't use it, that's your problem not theirs.

[S.Artesian]

Have even half of you read what you posted? Of course the womans credibility would effect the validity of her case, sure he might have done it but if the woman has a history of fabricating rape stories and whatnot then her credibility is questionable and therefore her case. Add in the other evidence against her and shes not looking too good.

Have you read half of what the real story is? She lied about things having nothing to do with the evidence in this case, which evidence supports her assertions. She lied to obtain legal status in the US for herself and her daughter.

Prosecutors have absolutely using confessed liars as witnesses in cases other than rape cases. They do it all the time, arguing that in these circumstances the witness is telling the truth as the evidence supports the witness's testimony.