Caporegime
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How are you going to prove that someone falsely accused someone ?
Confession, evidence, as with all crimes there is a possibility that even if she lied there isn't enough evidence to convict her. A woman recently got I believe sentenced to jail time because her fitbit proved her rape claim was false. She was apparently logged as walking in some area by her fitbit when she claims she was elsewhere being raped. Other women may get secretly recorded threatening to file a false rape claim then the video is shown when she does it. Other times texts/e-mails to friends laying out their plans, or video of the innocent party at the time she claims a rape happens proving she was lying, etc. There are plenty of ways to prove a claim is false and plenty of reasons an innocent person wouldn't have an alibi and proof the other person was lying.
I said pretty much throughout, he may or may not have raped her, the problem is she was so drunk she doesn't remember and jury members are essentially taking her word for it and taking the fact that they themselves either wouldn't have a threesome, or sloppy seconds or wouldn't admit it as proof that no normal woman would agree to bang another guy in the same night. It's a prude vs evidence issue, people assume women who sleep with more than one guy are 'a particular word for a woman who is promiscuous' because that is what society dictates. Rather than maybe she was raped, maybe she had sex with two dudes and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But because society views sex the way it does, in effect you are changing the options for a verdict, you're either siding with a potential victim or 'a particular word for a woman who is promiscuous' shaming her with no middle ground.
It also had the whole drunk angle, if someone is drunk they can't consent and it's always obvious exactly how drunk someone is, even though the only video evidence showed her walking fine and actively choosing to leave the hotel on her own to grab the pizza then come back in.
The bias throughout the trial, in the two extreme views in which the incident must be viewed(raped or just a 'a particular word for a woman who is promiscuous'), the media wanting to hate him and considering him guilty throughout, it wasn't close to a fair trial and I don't think he can get a fair trial at this point. She chose to go there, she can't remember what happened but she decides if she got black out drunk she bears no responsibility in how she acted is not a reason to find him guilty.
EDIT:- apparently the word that this 'a particular word for a woman who is promiscuous' represents is banned even though it's really not what I'd consider a swear word, oh well.