by eric d. graham
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With all of the “alleged” allegations of sexual assault, child abuse and rape clouding the airwaves and the nightly news, has the court of public opinion moved too quickly in its assumption that all of these individuals are guilty of “every” crime accused against them without any solid evidence or a court date?
Is the phrase “innocent until proven guilty” no longer relevant in the reality world of Judge Judy, which is filled with a courtroom full of Facebook lawyers, who have graduated with honors from The Google School of Law and Justice.
But, to all of those television defense attorneys, who love watching a 24-hour marathon of (Law & Order) every weekend and enjoyed the “classic” movie To Kill a Mockingbird and the recent “release” of Marshall, which starred Chadwick Boseman and Kate Hudson, you should know better.
Why? Because, there have been several highly publicized rape cases in the past, which have left a lot of people looking stupid after those cases went to trial and were discovered to be based upon lies and deception.
Have we forgotten all the uproar that occurred during the false allegation of rape that involved the Duke Lacrosse team and accuser Crystal Mangum in 2006, which had the city of Durham divided along racial lines?
Or, the false allegations of rape, by a woman identified ONLY as Jackie, who claimed she was gang raped by members of the University of Virginia’s Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, which was written and later retracted by reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely of Rolling Stone magazine in an article entitled, “A Rape on Campus in 2014.
And of course, there is the infamous Tawanda Brawley alleged rape case, which turned out to be a horrible hoax that captivated New York City in the late eighties, when-then 15 yr. old, Brawley, was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, NY, with “Bitch,” “KKK,” and “N***r” written on her stomach and feces smeared in her hair.
And let's not forget, the fabricated rape charges placed against high school football standout Brain Banks in 2002, which landed him in prison for more than five years. Even though, he was innocent.
In all of these cases, we can’t deny that race, politics and "white privilege" played a major role in how they were handled by the court system.
Because, this was made evident in June 2006, when Santa Clara’s Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky’s decided to give a former Stanford University swimmer, Brock Turner, ONLY six-month in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. (Remember, always, Beware of the Monsters in the Room) Connecting the Dots www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com
Is the phrase “innocent until proven guilty” no longer relevant in the reality world of Judge Judy, which is filled with a courtroom full of Facebook lawyers, who have graduated with honors from The Google School of Law and Justice.
But, to all of those television defense attorneys, who love watching a 24-hour marathon of (Law & Order) every weekend and enjoyed the “classic” movie To Kill a Mockingbird and the recent “release” of Marshall, which starred Chadwick Boseman and Kate Hudson, you should know better.
Why? Because, there have been several highly publicized rape cases in the past, which have left a lot of people looking stupid after those cases went to trial and were discovered to be based upon lies and deception.
Have we forgotten all the uproar that occurred during the false allegation of rape that involved the Duke Lacrosse team and accuser Crystal Mangum in 2006, which had the city of Durham divided along racial lines?
Or, the false allegations of rape, by a woman identified ONLY as Jackie, who claimed she was gang raped by members of the University of Virginia’s Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, which was written and later retracted by reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely of Rolling Stone magazine in an article entitled, “A Rape on Campus in 2014.
And of course, there is the infamous Tawanda Brawley alleged rape case, which turned out to be a horrible hoax that captivated New York City in the late eighties, when-then 15 yr. old, Brawley, was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, NY, with “Bitch,” “KKK,” and “N***r” written on her stomach and feces smeared in her hair.
And let's not forget, the fabricated rape charges placed against high school football standout Brain Banks in 2002, which landed him in prison for more than five years. Even though, he was innocent.
In all of these cases, we can’t deny that race, politics and "white privilege" played a major role in how they were handled by the court system.
Because, this was made evident in June 2006, when Santa Clara’s Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky’s decided to give a former Stanford University swimmer, Brock Turner, ONLY six-month in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. (Remember, always, Beware of the Monsters in the Room) Connecting the Dots www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com
