Slut shaming in the Buffalo News?

Sure. But it's going to be a central part of his defense, if there's a trial. It's not the Buffalo News's job to carry the prosecution's water while sitting on relevant defense evidence because it doesn't find it strong enough.

 

It's not "relevant defense evidence" until someone confirms it was actually the accuser and she was actually behaving that way. Even with confirmation, it's a real stretch from there to "relevance."

 

That is very much the Buffalo News' job. It doesn't actually have "defense evidence." It has scraps of the outer edges of the story with varying degrees of credibility and relevance, and its role is to judge the value of those scraps.

 

It's not a stretch. It will be utilized at trial. That makes it relevant.

 

The Buffalo News account will be utilized at trial?

 

Not if it's not the accuser, it won't.

Lawyers use irrelevant "evidence" all the time to prejudice a jury. We've already covered that - on this thread, even.

 

Whoa. Who's calling her a whore? That's a far cry from anything in that article.

Exactly. News reporters aren't prosecutors. It's the paper's job to go to that bar and get details on anything that happened there. If the bar owner had said Kane acted like a complete ass, these guys would print that in a heartbeat.

If they'd refuse to print some pretty mild statements to the contrary, that tells me they are less interested in reporting and more interested in advancing some agenda.

 

Dick: 2 Things.

1. Journalists have a professional and moral obligation not to prejudice a potential jury pool. It's not clear if this is evidence at all.

2. I saw one report that Kane left the party with 2 women. Let's say hypothetically that it was the woman flirting and her friend.

How do you know the accuser isn't the friend?

 

So?

 

You're cute when you're a naive little child. We all know how bad she wanted it, how bad she needed it. The bar owner told us.

 

I don't disagree with this.

 

Let's say the flirting woman does turn out to be the accuser, not her friend.

I'm still not convinced the judge would deem the bar owner's testimony as admissible.

Gotta ask Mama Lugs about that one.