Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>> > A statistically
>> > uncommon trial and an unlikely guilty verdict
>>
>> What is a "statistically uncommon trial"?

> Do trials occur in 100% of incidents, or even reports (true or false), of sexual
> assault?

Nope.

Why do you think they should?

> Yes, because a woman who was raped probably knew it since it happened.

And someone who simply makes an accusation to get back as someone knows
it didn't.

But you see no problem with the latter, oddly. It would seem then, that
you support criminal behavior, in that regard.

>> Then why did you disagree above?

> Because a trial, or at least the investigation leading up to it, could be useful in a
> case when nothing is known.

I can't come up with an example in recent memory where there wasn't at
least an investigation.

Mike