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JoeyT

(6,785 posts)
6. I think we're stuck.
Sun Feb 2, 2014, 04:13 AM
Feb 2014

While I can't say with 100% certainty she's innocent, I think she is, and even if I didn't the trial itself has become enough of a crazy mess that in any system that even pretends to be a just one I think she should walk. Once the evidence is corrupted and the prosecutors are shown to be trying to railroad someone, that really ought to be the end of it.

Even if she confessed tomorrow to not only this crime, but to everything from being on the grassy knoll to running moonshine, the amount of vitriol directed at her gender would be absolutely unacceptable. You don't use gender based insults against women unless you were already itching to use them and think you've found a way to do it without being called out for it.

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