(August 4, 2010 at 8:15 am)Dotard Wrote: The justice system did not fail. I say it performed magnificently. As others pointed out, no one here was on the jury. The jury heard (saw) the evidence and ruled accordantly. Justice was served. There was no victim.Whilst in your head, juries are omnipotent forces who cannot possibly be wrong about anything, the same cannot be said about reality. Juries make bad rulings all the time; some of them minor, some of them major. As for the evidence; we saw it too. Scented Nectar posted a link to the video of her dancing; and both her and I posted screenshots.
The other evidence was the lack of consent forms on the part of the company, and the witness testimony. Why you decide to take the side of a company in this instance is quite beyond me. It seemed clear to some of us here that this woman was trying to have a fun night out with her friends; was the unfortunate victim of an assault (and her knowing the woman responsible does nothing to change that by the way), and had this assault filmed and sold for profit against her knowledge, and without her permission.
The jury made remarks about the case which fly in the face of the evidence, rather than being supported by it. This is why so many people are angry, and why so many people are making petitions about it. The case isn't as simple as you think, and justice wasn't served.
Just because you like the ruling doesn't make it right, and just because we don't like the ruling doesn't make it wrong. That was never the argument. The argument from our position comes from the evidence; where does yours come from?
