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so if lets say i killed 3 people and went on trial for a fourth killing then my past 3 killings wouldnt matter ? or lets say i robbed 3 banks and went on trial for a fourth then it wouldnt matter or maybe i bribed 3 people and went on trial for a fouth then it wouldnt matter ?

Yep youre talking out of it again  

Anyway i coudnt give a monkeys bollocks about it one way or another there are worst things happening in the world i live in so realy this is feffing triva  

It could matter in the sentencing phase but not in deciding guilty/ not guilty part. What matters there is what did occur on the night in question. Was she in a fit condition to give consent? Even if she had been a prostitute if she hadn't consented it would have been rape.

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I disagree with all of you, but nothing new about that. The woman's past sexual history, her relations with her boyfriends, had no place in the court room and articles have been written about that aspect.

It's precisely because of how women who do report rape and sexual assault are victimized and pilloried in the law courts and in the court of public opinion that countless other women don't come forward and report them.

Trump and Cosby are prime examples of that and Evans, while a lesser light, epitomizes everything that is wrong with judicial systems that turn the victim into an offender.

So, I know you'll not like this, but I don't care. That's how I feel.

I don't disagree with you on everything but currently the law does!!  At the end of the day many of these sort of trials are based on one persons word against another with little to no evidence of outright positive proof of innocence or guilt!!  Therefore inevitably the general character of both the accused and the accuser has to become part of any trial.  In this one, the behaviour of the woman on that night was shown to be consistent with her behaviour a few nights earlier and less than two weeks after the Evans incident, that iformation surely does have some relevance in this case??

"The law is an ass. (Dickens)" See my comment to imre. It's only the behavior on the night not "a few nights earlier" that should have counted in determining innocence or guilt. And no, it has no relevance whatsoever. A disturbing precedent has been set. Wouldn't surprise me if the judge's decision to allow this kind of evidence were challenged.

http://yoursportsfeeder.com/2016/10/15/c...acquitted/