Rape and the left: Assange, Galloway and the problem with women

[JDPriestly]

59. Date can sometimes but not always be proved.

Here, the couple had consensual sex during the night, slept the night together in the same bed and then, she claims, he tried to have sex with her without her consent. That is not date rape, not at all. Not unless she now claims that the original sex was without her consent -- and from what I have read she has not claimed that.

It doesn't mean it couldn't happen.

But this is also the problem for the prosecutor in some other date rape cases. The prosecutor has to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If there is some believable explanation other than rape, then there will not be a conviction. It's really tough, but the defendant is also due his protection in the law. Fair? Maybe fairness just isn't always possible in the courts. The process just can't be fair enough because we cannot read people's minds.

Sometimes men rape. Sometimes women lie.

Rape has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt -- and that can be hard to do in some cases.