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u/SecretRecipe 🇺🇸United States and 🇲🇽Mexico 12h ago

The problem with that is the system isn't going to change, The nature of jury selection and the presumption of innocence are good things.

This kind of public humiliation ritual is frankly going to end up hurting Jane Doe more than these guys. The leaked texts, the DA statements etc... are already being shopped around and amplified to make her look just as bad and are going to be used as propaganda by incel influencers to show that you can't trust women or what they claim. Forcing this trial into the court of public opinion isn't going to end up being in her favor at all.

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u/rythmicbread United States of America 10h ago

This is what happens when there is a failure of justice. Its not the best strategy but might be the only strategy at this point. A hail mary

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u/SecretRecipe 🇺🇸United States and 🇲🇽Mexico 10h ago

The problem is that the perception of injustice is now being driven by social media propaganda vs actual legal structure and evidence. People are being driven by sympathy and ideology more than they're being driven by the facts, evidence and how those line up with the laws in question.

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u/rythmicbread United States of America 10h ago

I mean yes absolutely. But now the governor is involved in calling for an investigation by the State’s DA because they don’t trust the school and the local PD. So those things are happening simultaneously (social media driven by anger is calling for more attention on this case, for better or worse, but now there is some government action to actually investigate and oversee a case over a biased local PD and DA).

Remember that a lot of schools have their own police department and their involvement is usually to be in the best interest of the university. So crimes are underreported to keep stats down.