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Originally Posted by Dusty_Star
It does matter. He was convicted because he was guilty. The state will now have to use resources to retry him. But additionally it hamstrings other prosecutions of this kind of assault. Judge Madeline Singas put it well in her disent: "In a scathing dissent, Judge Madeline Singas wrote that the majority was “whitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said/she-said narrative,” and that the appeals court was continuing a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
“The majority’s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability,” Singas wrote.
“This conclusion deprives juries of the context necessary to do their work, forecloses the prosecution from using any essential tool to prove intent, ignores the nuances of how sexual violence is perpetrated and perceived, and demonstrates the majority’s utter lack of understanding of the dynamics of sexual assault.”
“Because New York’s women deserve better, I dissent,” she concluded."
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Singas should be thrown off the bench, for writing such a ludicrous dissent. The issue at hand had nothing to do with politics, nor some folks notion that women aren't capable of standing up for themselves ... or the opposite, using their physical or sexually desirability to obtain an "edge".
The appeal was procedural in nature (as most are) and the original trial judge fell victim to the exact same political bias that effects Singas.
This is the 2nd hit the MeToo movement has taken recently and there are more to come. Perpetuating the myth that women are vulnerable and helpless, is simply another misguided notion the woke would like to perpetuate.