A jury has acquitted a former Greeley police officer of sexually assaulting a woman during a traffic stop in March.
A woman had accused Daniel Shepherd of following her from a party where she had been told to leave, pulling her over and then groping her.
Jurors acquitted him Wednesday
Juror David Sanchez told the Greeley Tribune the jury had trouble believing not only the woman, who had made false claims about assault in the past, but also Shepherd, who initially denied to his superiors that he ever stopped the woman.
Juror David Jones said that doubts forced the jury to acquit.
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"doubts forced the jury to acquit"
I wish I saw this more often, for any offenses.
OT sorta:
I'm not sure what to make of this article on MSNBC. "Experts blast new mental health 'bible'"
"Some diagnoses - for conditions like "oppositional defiant disorder" and "apathy syndrome" - risk devaluing the seriousness of mental illness and medicalising behaviors most people would consider normal or just mildly eccentric, the experts said.
At the other end of the spectrum, the new DSM, due out next year, could give medical diagnoses for serial rapists and sex abusers - under labels like "paraphilic coercive disorder" - and may allow offenders to escape prison by providing what could be seen as an excuse for their behavior, they added."
--- The answers are probably elsewhere; in the details and in the application of this new bible. Suspecting the influence and intimidation by feminists to the mental health profession I cannot see anything being done that would excuse some real rapists from prison time unless of course the feminists have a plan for the non-prison parole treatment to include castration and a mental lobotomy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46329572/ns/health/
Aharon
the real problem, of course, is that a psychiatric label helps to escape punishment.
It is fine to give a diagnosis, but no matter what diagnosis, the criminal should be held responsible.
Psychiatric diagnoses should not be a free ticked to reduce responsibility.
Except for battered women syndrome, of course. /sarcasm
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