How We Teach Our Kids That Women are Liars.

[davidn3600]

48. I didnt say that...

...I said when you have a case of a he said, she said, credibility of the parties becomes practically the entire case.

Say a guy and girl meet at a party. They are drinking a little, having some laughs and appear to he having a good time, not totally drunk. People see them both walk out together and no one notices anything unusual. The next day, the woman calls the cops and claims to have been raped. The man claims sex occurred but that it was consensual.

What do you want the jury to do?

Of course the defense in such a case will attack her credibility. They will attack her statements made to the police. They will question every part of her story. They will grill her on the stand. I don't particularly like the idea of them going into a woman's past sexual history since it's irrelevant (and juries may frown on such tactics if that's all the defense seems to do), but a defense attorney has the job to defend his/her client.

We don't throw people in prison for years just because one person makes an accusation. That's how innocent people end up incarcerated.