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ayc said:
In 1979, I was 18 years old, recently registered to vote, and called to jury duty in the small Kansas town of my childhood. It was a rape case -- an 18 year old girl, and a 28 year old man...

... And his public defender who came out with the nuts and sluts defense. The PD thought the jury would cave, she thought that an 18 year old girl would never be able to stand her ground.

But I was educated about feminist issues - I had read about the need to not try the rape victim, read that a fair trail meant not destroying the victims credibility. It was a feminist issue, and it was clearly rape, and I held out for almost two days, until the jury foreman asked to go over the evidence again, and we re-voted and the accused was found guilty.


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I found this:

Kansas Rape Shield Law...

Passed in 1976,

the Kansas rape shield law is codified at K.S.A. 21-3525. It is really an evidentiary law, setting out specific evidence that may be excluded from certain trials. The Kansas law applies to the following crimes: Rape,...

Basically, the statute prohibits admission of any evidence of the complaining witness' (victim's) previous sexual conduct with any person including the defendant. It also prohibits any mention of this conduct in the presence of the jury.


THEREFORE I DOUBT YOUR STORY.

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As soon as the nutjobs here find out that the defendent was a registered republican, they'll clam up.

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Does anyone at the HuffingtonPost understand the role of a defense lawyer? Their job is to zealously defend their client so that the government is forced to actually do its job when prosecuting people. This story says nothing other than that Clinton was a good lawyer.

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1982; Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma,were intimidated by police into confessions for the 1982 rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter and convicted. In 1999, DNA evidence exonerated them.

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1984; Darryl Hunt, convicted in 1984 of the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, spent 19 years in prison, 9 of which were served after DNA evidence indicated that he did not commit the rape.

I am one of those people who coming to the conclusion that Hillary Clinton is an unscrupulous, win at any cost politician with an entitlement issues. However, any attacks against her relating to this issue are unfair and apportunistic. She was acting as a public defender. In that capacity she has to do what she can to impeach a witness regardless of age. We can attack her on any number of issues but not defending someone she was representing. Get it she was doing her job in which she was bound ethically to do.

Another prime example of Hillary's notorious overzealous "experience", however "experienced" she is, it makes not a whit of difference when her DECISIONS ARE BAD.

This article is just another point to the rotten kind of person she is.

BTW, her FIRST case was defending a food corporation against a guy who found the ass end of a rat in his Franks and Beans. Yup, she's a real "nice" lady.

Wonder how Hillary would feel if it had been HER daughter in that 12 year olds shoes?

In 1979, I was 18 years old, recently registered to vote, and called to jury duty in the small Kansas town of my childhood. It was a rape case -- an 18 year old girl, and a 28 year old man. I still remember the color of her torn jeans, her underwear stained with blood. And his public defender who came out with the nuts and sluts defense. The PD thought the jury would cave, she thought that an 18 year old girl would never be able to stand her ground.

But I was educated about feminist issues - I had read about the need to not try the rape victim, read that a fair trail meant not destroying the victims credibility. It was a feminist issue, and it was clearly rape, and I held out for almost two days, until the jury foreman asked to go over the evidence again, and we re-voted and the accused was found guilty.

Senator Clinton was aware this was a feminist issue, she knew about 12 year old victims, and she abdicated her responsibility to the truth in mounting this type of already discredited defense.

She has a defective moral compass.

When she attacks a 12 year old rape victim she's gone far beyond "defending the accused". Boggles my mind any woman could do that to a child. I guess Hillary just wants to win at any cost as long as the cost is paid by someone else.

Ok Hillary shills tell me again what part of "just doing her job" was the inhumain slander of the child victim in this case? You Hillary shills are too much, You all repeat one another, repeat Howard Wolfson and it's all twisted B.S.. You all have another thing in common, You are completely desperate and totally pathetic at this hour.

Eight days motherfuckers and then it's over.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I think Clinton had to mount an aggressive defense of her client (that's the law). The prosecutor admits that she asked not to be assigned to the case. However, it seems she may have crossed the line with the "blame the victim" bit, accusing her of making previous claims, etc. and using the fact that she has a crush on the 15 year old to discredit her. Those are the kinds of tactics that make girls afraid to report these things..

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It's amazing how much outrage retardicans are posting here over something Hillary couldn't control.

A court-appointed attoney can't refuse a case simply because they don't like the defendant or because of the type of case.

Where's your outrage when well-known republicans are arrested and convicted for committing such crimes?

And if you rightwing nuts don't like the principles of our judical system, one of the pillars that makes our nation free, then you don't like America.

Just go back in time to the Salem Witch Trails, or to the early 80's and the McMartin preschool case if you want to know if children ever lie or are mislead.

Better still, move to Saudi Arabia, where everyone accused of a crime is found quilty and punished immediately.

Only you won't, much to our country's dismay, because it's better for you here.

Here, you get to compalin and your candidates promise this and that, but they never do anything but fuck it all up for everyone excpe their friends (which, suckers, are not you).


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So this is where Hillary learned her "whatever it takes to win" tactics, no matter who is hurt? Shame on you, Hillary Clinton.

I am an Obama supporter but I am also fair minded. That's what lawyers do they represent criminals. I don't think we need to bash Hill for doing her job and doing it well. There are some things that are just low blows as is this. What we need to do is make sure that all parties are fighting fair. We need to make sure she denounces the implications that she tried to perpetrate by having that picture of Senator Obama posted on the Drudge Report. Now that's a low blow and poor judgment. All of this hogwash is dividing the party.

No attorney is forced to accept a client... I have been in a couple of scraps in court and, on several occasions, due to egregious and indefensible behavior on the part of my opponent his counsel have walked off the fight. Never lost a court case, myself.
I think that Hillary is neither empathetic nor sensitive, she only thinks about herself and her career. This lack of principles is aptly demonstrated in her choice to usurp and parasitize Obama's principles rather than demonstrate her own.
She can mock Obama but she won't mock the Administration. She couldn't be bothered to vote on the telecom immunity bill thereby demonstrating her disdain for those who elected her... etc...

If only she had said "NO" to the judge about representing

the rapist.

If only she had voted "NO" to Bush's War of Choice.

If only she had admitted defeat in this campaign with dignity.

If only she would leave the Dem Party.