Tim of the Oak
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We don’t know if 9 women independently brought charges or not. A lot of the women would have mixed in the same clubbing circles so I think it’s unlikely that there was no information shared between any of them, but we might never know.You're talking about him being legally proven guilty. I'm talking about whether he did it. You seem to think that those two things are the same. But in rape cases, it is demonstrably true that there is very little relation between the two. The vast majority of rapists, thousands and thousands of people, are walking free having never seen any sort of justice for their actions. Ultimately, as you say, none of us know, but we can still make a probability judgement about whether 9 women would independently choose to wrongly accuse someone of rape.
I agree the conviction rate is very low but that doesn’t change one of the founding tenants of our legal system I.e. the accused is innocent until proven guilty.
The evidence against Mendy was/is flimsy. If the evidence was compelling I would want him convicted.