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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,319 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 05:41 PM Oct 2018

USC students rallied today demanding prof be fired for championing due process

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Nearly 100 USC students rallied at noon today demanding a prof be fired after he championed due process

"If the day comes you are accused of a crime, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process than you are now," he emailed students




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Students rally, call for firing of professor after controversial email

By KATHERINE WILES
October 2, 2018 in Campus, News

Nearly 30 students gathered in Argue Plaza Monday calling for the firing of Professor James Moore after he wrote that “accusers sometimes lie” in an email to the entire Price School of Public Policy last week.

The rally, which was organized by Price students Joelle Montier and Audrey Mechling, came after an extensive email chain prompted by Moore’s reply to an invitation for an event called “Coffee and Title IX” organized by Price Women and Allies.

“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now,” Moore wrote on Thursday. “Accusers sometimes lie.”
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Montier called for the firing of Moore and said he should be disciplined “at the highest level possible” at USC. The protesters also held up posters with statements such as “Fire James Moore,” “I am not a liar” and “Believe women.”
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Or:

USC students protested for the removal of a professor who sent a controversial email in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh testimony

October 1 at 5:37 PM
October 1 at 5:37 PM
Written by Ran Tao

Dozens of students gathered Monday outside of USC's Price School of Public Policy to protest a professor's controversial email about how to handle sexual assault allegations.

James Moore, a professor at Price, sent an email last week to all students of the school defending due process in sexual assault allegations. Moore said in the email, "accusers sometimes lie."

You can read more about the email controversy here.

Some Price school students were offended. They protested today at noon to demand Professor Moore to be fired.



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USC students rallied today demanding prof be fired for championing due process (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 OP
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I guess it's okay to suspend due process if "most of us think so" discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2018 #2

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,476 posts)
2. I guess it's okay to suspend due process if "most of us think so"
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 07:10 PM
Oct 2018

As I understand it, our entire judicial system is designed to protect those accused.
When you are arrested, accused or standing trial, regardless of your background, you are the smallest minority. You are the individual accused.

If you don't receive a fair trial, with all of rights accorded anyone of any background or station in life, justice has not been served. The verdict is a lie.

The word verdict derives from the Latin veritas meaning truth. Only truth inspires trust and at this time, with trust in the federal executive branch at a new low, how can any erosion of the judicial process strengthen trust in the government?

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