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MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
« on: April 30, 2023, 05:24:12 pm »
MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
Mark Finkelstein
April 30th, 2023 8:10 AM
 
 
E. Jean Carroll Glenn Kirschner MSNBC The Saturday Show With Jonathan Capehart 4-29-23This is what passes for an MSNBC legal "analyst." On Jonathan Capehart's Saturday morning show, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said that cross-examining people who claim to be sexual assault victims, such as Trump accuser E. Jean Caroll, is a "disservice."

Kirschner grudgingly acknowledged that the Sixth Amendment—that inconvenient thing!—gives defendants the right to confront and cross-examine their accusers.  But Kirschner said that as a former prosecutor, it was "heartbreaking" for him to see sexual assault victims "falsely accused of making stories up."

But how is a jury supposed to decide who is being "falsely accused"—the accuser or the person being accused—unless the accuser is subjected to cross-examination? And who made Kirschner the arbiter of who is telling the truth and who is "making stories up?"

The real "disservice" would be to justice—if Kirschner's notion were ever adopted, and sexual assault accusers were simply taken at their word.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2023/04/30/msnbc-legal-analyst-its-disservice-cross-examine-trump-rape
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Re: MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2023, 05:24:52 pm »
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Re: MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2023, 05:31:36 pm »
No purpose having any type of hearing at all.  Just fill out a Butt Hurt form in the convenience of your home and mail it in.
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Re: MSNBC Legal Analyst: It's a 'Disservice' to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2023, 05:33:52 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on April 30, 2023, 05:31:36 pm
No purpose having any type of hearing at all.  Just fill out a Butt Hurt form in the convenience of your home and mail it in.

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