Real justice would give sexual assault victims a real voice and real choice - The Globe and Mail ⇒
29 March 2016, early afternoon
At the Jian Ghomeshi trial, everything unfolded as it “should.†Prodigiously talented legal commandos for the defence reduced the prosecution’s case to a smouldering ruin.
Then, the judge – by current convention a mere observer of the carnage – stated what legal observers had been describing as obvious in his final ruling: The evidence did not meet the standard for criminal conviction. This meant the accused walked away, wearing the legally indisputable (but, for some, ill-fitting) cloak of innocence, and his accusers were left to somehow make sense of things on their own.
Is that the best approximation of justice we can aspire to?
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