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In reply to the discussion: True Feminists Should Find this Incredibly Horrifying........Can We Unite in Support? [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)It's somewhere here.
And, thank you for remembering watching it. Amy got into the fact that her Attorney was barred from mentioning that the Cop had been involved in other abuses. It seems to go back into not allowing evidence to be presented about a person's "past deeds" to be entered into evidence because it could be seen as "previous offenses" prejudicing a jury...(which I can understand) but in this case if the cop had prior abuses against "Activist Protestors or Women" it would seem that as a Public Servant that that SHOULD have been entered into evidence. I
I can understand why when someone is a Victim that prior incidences they've been involved in might Prejudice a Jury...but she had no prior incidents but the Police Officer DID and that his record couldn't be put into evidence for the "Defense" seems to be some kind of backwards view of the law.
Why should a Police Officer (employed by Public Funds) not be allowed to have his own record entered when someone he arrested now faces a jail term when she has evidence that something was very wrong in his conduct to her before the arrest.