Comment on The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Nope, just of sexual abuse. Which is, like…. Come on New York what’s the fucking difference here? Especially when you hear the story of what happened. I don’t understand how they talked the court down from rape to sexual abuse.

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  • Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Money

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My understanding is that she wasn’t able to say with 100% certainty that he put his penis inside her; that it could have been his finger. Which is a pretty sick burn to have on-record but actually lines up with what his other victims say.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Money and power

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yet.

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• Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Semantics. Some might classify the secual assault he preformed as rape.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    No, it’s because the finding was made in civil court, not criminal court, therefore not convicted.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Huh? You can be convicted in civile court…

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      • gingernate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        A conviction leads to sentencing (normally) in a criminal matter. A cival court is settling a cival matter, not a criminal one. Criminal courts convict you of a crime and sentence you to some kind of punishment. Cival courts can make you pay a fine, but not convict you of a crime.

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