The presumption that victims "should be believed" is inconsistent with the trial function of evaluating witness credibility.
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Duty to evaluate credibility applies equally to all witnesses. It's not a structural bias toward defendants.
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Unless there are 13 assault victims saying the exact same thing about the assaulter! Always look for patterns and repetition!
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As stated, settling on previous occasions is given to be a defacto admission of guilt.However,settling is considered inference,not guilt
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Guilt still has to be factually proven,that is with a criminal trial,sufficient evidence proving probability,not necessarily always
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conclusive evidence.It means to the untrained eye settling out of court is conclusive of culpability.To engage sentencing process,i.e. trial
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you need the forensics,whether that amounts to medical,physical or corroborative....testimony of victims or witnesses for example.
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Since no scene or physical forensics were mentioned,mainly testimony,with no mention of DNA tests for example,which,would prove the drugs
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history(it's how Obama&Clinton had to cede defeat on their college drug use denials because hair strand tests proved they used)
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which could have proven the victims story,along with the pharmaceutical history of Cosby,which would have at least proven illegal
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dissemination of possibly legally prescribed drugs,a criminal offence in most countries in itself.Failure to reach verdict,i.e. mistrial,
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Complete crap.
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Especially when the same complaints are lodged against whitemen.. or even police for death/brutality the crickets come out.
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All have lost so much, already
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That is why it's referred to as an adversarial legal system. It's not about who is 'right' or what happened. It's about who is convincing.
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But why only women assault victims have so much trouble being believed on stand & accused men have such sacrosanct presumption of innocence.
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