re: Anderson

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Let's be honest...these things very, very, very rarely happen with a no name person.

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No, it's reasonably common. It just doesn't get media coverage, because it involves a no-name person.

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Let's be honest...these things very, very, very rarely happen with a no name person.

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I don’t think that’s true. The media never covers cases with no name people, but they do happen. I was a prosecutor earlier in my career and I had dozens of sexual assault cases come across my desk. None involved high profile alleged victims or alleged perpetrators.

I found that rarely, maybe 10% of the time, was the alleged victim a clear liar. 80% of the cases I thought the girl was likely telling the truth but that there was not enough evidence to secure a conviction, and so I didn’t indict. The remaining 10% had enough evidence to take to trial. And most of those were only based on “he-said-she-said” evidence. It’s all about making credibility determinations of the alleged victim and the alleged perp. If the alleged perp makes a bunch of substantively inconsistent statements, it’s evidence he (or she) is a liar and probably guilty.