How come sexual assault is one of hardest crime to prosecute vs every other crime?
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I know of 3 people who served on 3 separate juries for sexual assault *all* had that one juror who thought the victim was “asking for it” and consented through….body language? Social proximity? What they wore?
The other jurors spent the majority of their time working on that stereotyped logic of the hold out juror. I think that’s why prosecutors are hesitant to bring SA cases to trial. Jurors are the untrained group in the court room who bring in their own prejudices and prior socializations.
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