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[kippurbird]

Apparently the district attorney prosecutor guy up where my brother lives isn't going to try to take the rape case because they so often don't end in a conviction.

-_-

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[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

As a woman, I feel a terrible chill at those words.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

As a man, I feel a terrible chill at those words, too.

[canadianevil.livejournal.com]

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

[oceans-heart.livejournal.com]

I'm now screaming more curses than I actually realized I knew.

[subieko.livejournal.com]

*smites prosecutor guy*

Damn it, I hate that. What the hell is the point of having laws to protect people if they aren't enforced!? It's like saying 'a rape case isn't worth the effort'. As if rape isn't a serious crime. Which it IS. *seeths*

[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

While he's right...
THEY DEFINITELY DON'T END IN CONVICTION IF YOU DON'T PROSECUTE THEM!
/caps lock of rage

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

I was just about to post that. *too stunned at the gall of the prosectuor to think*

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

*Or, apparently, spell correctly*

[thelittlebudgie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's gonna help the conviction rate go up. The hell?

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Not taking "unwinnable" cases means that HIS conviction rate doesn't take a hit. Overall stats apparently mean shit to him--only his own ability to crow about a 90% (or whatever) conviction rate.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Uhh... what? A rape charge is a criminal offense, the prosecution is the State, not a private party, and thus there would be a State attorney handling it. The incident is reported to the police, the police file the charges, and so on.

Which is to say, talk to the police, not an attorney, if they haven't already.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Sorry. The State Attorney doesn't want to prosecute.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

That's... really kind of ridiculous. Admittedly things like that can be sometimes hard to prosecute if it goes to trial (i.e. a not guilty plea and all) but... there's certainly plenty of cases taken to court like that which DO end in a conviction. Or at least here.

[oozaru-angel.livejournal.com]

That's just... How the hell do you... I mean you... ARGH!

Faith in humanity= near dead. Bullshit meter is depressed.

WHAT?

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

... o_o GRRRR... That prick. I agree with what everyone else said so far. I can't think of anything to add. Too irate. :[

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

....

No words. Just no words.

[julyflame.livejournal.com]

I would like to advocate taking justice into the hands of the people just this once, if the law isn't going to take care of it. Fucking nail gun to the bastards' scrotums sounds good to me.

Cos, I mean, fucking hell.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Jeez... okay, there should be a victims' rights group and/or a women's rights group in your area. Hell, if nothing else, there should be a damn ACLU. I'm hoping that she'll pursue this, because the idea that those bastards can get away with this shit because the DA just can't be arsed to try is obscene.

[jacedraccus.livejournal.com]

Wait, so the State Attorneys aren't hard-headed idealistic crusaders for good?

DAMN YOU, LAW AND ORDER! YOU LIED TO ME!

Seriously, we need more McCoys.

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

I thought of that myself. XD It's sad when I feel the TV version might be better than RL. :P

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes it's less a question of the conviction rates and more of a question of the victim's mental health. There's the anticipation (numbering in the months, sometimes the years), admitting that you were violated in front of a room full of strangers, and the fact that the defense lawyer has to question you thoroughly. After all that, it'd be absolutely crushing for the case not to end in a conviction.

But it's still really sad, and exasperating.

=(

*sends internet hugs to her*

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

That is a good point. I forgot about how long this stuff can take and that is hard on the poor girl who was victimized. But if she was determined to go through with it and felt she could handle the stress, I feel they should have considered taking the case. :P

[banblyth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of course. I was just playing devil's advocate, because the idea that any public servant would fail that much is terrifying. D=

(The epicness of the fail depends entirely on whether the attorney rejected the case flat-out, or after serious deliberation.)

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

*snarls and froths at the mouth*

[shmeiliarockie.livejournal.com]

Well, there goes my faith in humanity. There really is no justice in the world.

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

Two words: nighttime vandalism.

[thelastmehina.livejournal.com]

*fury*

And folks wonder why I'm the local Angry Feminist...

[alexseanchai]

Given the attitude that a woman out alone or dressed 'provocatively' was by said action inviting sexual advances (and related bullshit, such as the attitude that consent to X sex act with a particular person at a particular time entails consent to Y sex act with that person at that time and/or to X sex act with somebody else and/or to X sex act with that person anytime) and that 'boys will be boys', I am not surprised. Saddened, angered, but not surprised.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

I want to be outraged, but having recently read this blog post and the responses to it, I'm not even surprised. Witness: the woman who went straight to the hospital and called the cops, only to have the officer call her a "lying whore." Witness: the woman who was told that her case couldn't be tried unless there was a witness (and the sick part is that in her case, there was a witness - and he was cheering on her attacker). Witness: a fucked-up system in which rape is a crime - as long as you can prove you weren't "asking for it," didn't confuse the guy by giving "mixed signals," didn't consent and then deny it later ('cause that happens all the time, apparently).