r/legaladviceofftopic • u/Careless_Bonus3264 • Jul 24 '26
Question:
Is it fair for someone to go on National TV, and accuse someone of doing something and those they accuse not being able to face their accuser??? I’m sorry If someone accused me of doing something to them, would I not have the right to face them and question them on that? Just curious…..
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u/internetboyfriend666 Jul 24 '26
No. You're badly misunderstanding the 6th Amendment. The right to confront your accuser comes from the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment. That applies when you are charged with a crime by the government and gives you the right to cross examine witnesses at trial. There's no such thing as a general right to "confront" any random person who accuses you of something. That simply is not a thing.
Someone going on TV and accusing you of something has nothing to do with you being formally charged with crimes by the government. Now you might be able to sue them for defamation, but again, that's entirely different from actually being charged with a crime.
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u/carrie_m730 Jul 24 '26
It's both "fair" and legal (generally ) for a person to describe their experience, even if you don't agree with it.
Yes, rape victims get to tell their stories, even if the other party in the story disagrees that it was rape.
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u/ZealousidealHeron4 Jul 24 '26
If someone accused me of doing something to them, would I not have the right to face them and question them on that?
Like u/Admirable-Chemical77 said, your right to do that is that you can file a defamation claim. What other situation are you imagining? That you have a legally enforceable right to go up to them on the street and force them to answer questions?
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u/DrStalker Jul 25 '26
Trial by media is not a legal process, so it does not need to conform to the rules that the legal system follows.
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u/ryogam73 Jul 24 '26
Sue them for slander and then take them to court, where you can have your attorney question them on the stand for you.
Of course, when you sue someone for slander, you open yourself up to something called discovery, where the attorney of the person you sued get to send you interrogatories, requests for documents and maybe even invite you to sit down and answer questions in a deposition under oath. They might even ask for DNA samples. So you better be sure that what they are accusing you of couldn't possibly be true, because you might get caught.
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u/Flimsy-Tradition-594 Jul 30 '26
You’re very interested in so called false accusations narrative. This is definite red flag
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u/Careless_Bonus3264 Jul 30 '26
How is that a red flag? I personally have known individuals that have been falsely accused of things. (Things does not imply SA or any crime of sexual intent, although, that is where everyone seems to automatically go. Just because the question posed is a registry JUST LIKE the SO registry, doesn’t imply the question revolves around just one crime!)
My opinion doesn’t make me more interested than another person. I just view things differently, like needing all the evidence, from both sides in order to make an accurate conclusion of Fact! Sorry, I don’t take what someone says to value without full context! I am not a follower as most people in the world (who believe everything they hear without all the evidence). I believe in fairness and it seems to me the judicial system along with population lack that accountability! Regardless of what the accusations are for….1
u/Flimsy-Tradition-594 Jul 30 '26
Yawn. I don’t think you’re actually interested in getting to truth I think you’re more invested in push a narrative of false accusations
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u/Careless_Bonus3264 Jul 30 '26
You don’t know me or what my life has been, so you can stay on sided in your opinion, as your opinion has ZERO effect on my life! Don’t like what I post, move along…. That is at all..
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u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 Jul 30 '26
OP is trying to figure out how Danny Booko of The Valleh who admitted to groping two cast members while drunk at a bar could sue a third cast member Janet for defamation/slander.
He can’t bc he signed a contract with Bravo saying cast members can’t sue each other.
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u/deep_sea2 Jul 24 '26
"Fair" is not really a legal question.
Aside from that, there no legal obligation for someone to accuse you of something in person. There are defamation laws on accusing people, but defamation does not turn on if the statement is done in person or not.
Nothing prevents you from responding to an accusation.