Almost all of these cases are decided without physical evidence, and often on the basis of a single child’s testimony. (I’ve seen convictions even when the child said nothing happened at all.)
Juries will absolutely convict based on the accusation alone
A lot of innocent people are going to be executed.
We played this game with the Satanic Panic in the 80s. Hysteria ripes through a town and pretty soon a dozen people are in jail while some freaks scream "Children Don't Lie" from the court house steps.
Now we're going to up the ante on these cases to make sure DAs can't back down and courts don't have any opportunity to reverse false rulings.
Almost all of these cases are decided without physical evidence, and often on the basis of a single child’s testimony. (I’ve seen convictions even when the child said nothing happened at all.)
Juries will absolutely convict based on the accusation alone
A lot of innocent people are going to be executed.
We played this game with the Satanic Panic in the 80s. Hysteria ripes through a town and pretty soon a dozen people are in jail while some freaks scream "Children Don't Lie" from the court house steps.
Now we're going to up the ante on these cases to make sure DAs can't back down and courts don't have any opportunity to reverse false rulings.