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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6606202" data-attributes="member: 2093"><p>I recently was on a jury trial that lasted a week. It was nasty, involving a now-23-year-old making an accusation about an assault that happened 10 years earlier. We had to listen to what these people's lives had been like for the entire 7 YEARS between the initial event, and the outcry. It was devastatingly difficult. All of us, men included, were in tears at one point or another. And in the end it boiled down to who believed who. There was no physical evidence after all that time. We ended by convicting the attacker on several lesser charges because of the lack of evidence. I don't wish that on ANYONE. I will, to the end of my days, wonder if we REALLY did the right thing, even though at the time I was utterly convinced it WAS. These were decent people, except for the attacker, who were simply beholden to the wrong person at the wrong time, and who had no clue how to deal with what had happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 6606202, member: 2093"] I recently was on a jury trial that lasted a week. It was nasty, involving a now-23-year-old making an accusation about an assault that happened 10 years earlier. We had to listen to what these people's lives had been like for the entire 7 YEARS between the initial event, and the outcry. It was devastatingly difficult. All of us, men included, were in tears at one point or another. And in the end it boiled down to who believed who. There was no physical evidence after all that time. We ended by convicting the attacker on several lesser charges because of the lack of evidence. I don't wish that on ANYONE. I will, to the end of my days, wonder if we REALLY did the right thing, even though at the time I was utterly convinced it WAS. These were decent people, except for the attacker, who were simply beholden to the wrong person at the wrong time, and who had no clue how to deal with what had happened. [/QUOTE]

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