Tag Archive for ‘false accusations’
30 Years for a Rape He Never Committed
Rape, genuine rape, in which the right perpetrator has been charged, tried and convicted, belongs at the top of society’s most heinous crimes. It’s hardly an accident that judges and juries have a tendency to rush to judgment once they are convinced that the correct person is on trial. The problems arise when the evidence [...]
Ladies Who Lie
The New York Post is never shy about jumping on any high-profile rape or alleged rape story. And the Post is never forgiving about the consequences when the “victim” turns out to be the perpetrator of a crime of a different kind.
Books for the Holidays
There’s a growing library of serious journalism devoted to men and women wrongly convicted by the American justice system. The stories of false rape accusations are attracting readers and some very talented writers. The first book recommended here, Actual Innocence, is a journalistic and legal classic…
Meet the False Rape Society
As a society, we permit the reputations of persons falsely accused of sex crimes to be destroyed by even baseless accusations of a lone accuser; we permit the presumptively innocent, who too often turn out to be falsely accused…
Gore, Obama, Stevens, Vick & Roethlisberger Charges Lack Evidence
Celebrity basing over the summer seemed particularly lurid and accuracy-challenged.
If you go strictly by the unsubstantiated headlines, former Vice President Al Gore sexually assaulted a masseuse, laughed in her face and got away with it. All that supposedly happened during a trip to promote himself as a best-selling author and all around cool guy.
Why we like the Innocence Project
This is not a perfect organization. Not too many are. But the enduring — founded in 1992 — strength of the Innocence Project is its absolute refusal to write off people or cases as lost causes. And circumstantial evidence, malicious media reporting and horrendous police work, not to mention inadequate legal representation, can make some of these cases look pretty hopeless.
Murder or Miscarriage of Justice?
The classification of murder is based solely on police investigation as opposed to the determination of a court, medical examiner, coroner, jury, or other judicial body. In other words, the police provide all of our statistical information on the prevalence of murder – based on who they initially charge with what, not on trials, convictions or justice.
Liar Liar
When a woman later admits to making up a rape story, you begin to wonder why she would go to such lengths to lie about such a heinous crime in the first place. Then it turns out she was attempting to hide an extra-marital affair. Has America become a culture of rape?
Mother of 3 Bogus Rape Claims
GAIL Sherwood, a mother-of-three who falsely claimed to have been raped, has been found guilty of three counts of perverting the course of justice. Sherwood, 52, of Yew Tree Way, Thrupp, twice claimed she had been raped and also accused a man of stalking her. During a six week trial, Bristol Crown Court heard she [...]
Ex-Heroin Addict Stabs Boyfriend and Makes False Rape Claim
AN ex-heroin addict who twice knifed her partner got him arrested and locked up as well after she claimed he had raped her. Mother-of-two Sarah Norquoy stabbed victim Raymond Sutherland in the thigh and below the knee as he sat in a chair, after she had armed herself with a knife from the kitchen of [...]