Prosecutors in Polk County say they plan to drop charges against a man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.
In charges filed in December, District Attorney Dan Steffen says the man from Turtle Lake was accused of assaulting the girl at her home. However, GPS information from a handicapped transportation service the man worked for later proved he never left his route on the day of the alleged assault.
Steffen says finding out an alleged victim was not telling the truth is about the worst situation you can imagine as a prosecutor. He says there is no doubt now that the accusations were false.
Steffen says his office will do everything possible to clear the man’s name, including having the case dismissed and expunged from all databases so there’s no “cloud on his history.”
Link: http://www.wrn.com/2012/01/da-says-sexual-assault-claim-was-a-lie/
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If he has legal grounds to sue her parents then I hope he does so.
I am generally against police-state types of technologies used to monitor the activities of private citizens. In a state or society that practices misandry I am coming to increasingly appreciate technologies that can and have protected men from FRA and other misandry actions. GPS might have literally saved an innocent man from going to prison for many years or decades. There have been cases in England when surveillance cameras have been the eye-witness that saved men in cases of FRA.
I'm wondering what are the technologies men should own and use in this modern dystopia that we are living in. Recently digital recording devices was commented upon here at the FRS as a good tool. I understand that cell phones can also use a GPS application (obviously I'm not yet doing it though it seems like a good idea). Anyone else with more ideas please comment.
Aharon
I represent Servicemembers against FRA at Courts-martial, and I have always advocated that Servicemembers videotape their daliances as an alibi. Well, Congress has closed that possibility by criminalizing the video recording any act in the new revised Article 120 of the UCMJ.
They say nothing about voice recording, so that option is still available. I guess defense attorneys were getting too many acquittals. Also, this is covered under Article 120, so if a Servicemember video's the act, as a conviction for that is much better than going to jail for rape, then they will still have to register as a sex offender. Nice, huh?
Aharon - "I am generally against police-state types of technologies used to monitor the activities of private citizens. In a state or society that practices misandry I am coming to increasingly appreciate technologies that can and have protected men from FRA and other misandry actions."
I share your views. I'm dubious of government surveillance, but there have been so many instances of men being cleared by it that I can embrace it despite my concerns about it's actual intent.
Off topic but imagine what feminists are saying about this:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/mississippi-governor-pardons-210-including-murderers-rapists/
Yet the hags have nothing to say about the vagina passes women have been given in this nation who committed the sam/similar crime(s)
ksf said...
Will a taped session be admissible if it's illegal to tape it?
OT:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/os-casey-anthony-depositions-20120111,0,7766802.story
Anonymous - "Will a taped session be admissible if it's illegal to tape it?"
Unfortunately, I don't have the links handy, but if you search the archives here, you will find a number of instances wherein such evidence has been used (in court) to exonerate the falsely accused [IIRC, there were a couple of such cases in which the falsely accused faced (retaliatory?) charges for having taped the incident in question]
So, it would seem that courts have not held that such illegally obtained evidence is inadmissible, as the exculpatory value would quite obviously far exceed the infraction by which it was obtained.
Civilian individuals tend not to be held to the same standards as are law enforcement when it comes to how evidence is obtained. For falsely accused men, this is actually a very good thing.
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