I watch a lot of true crime shows and there appears to be a lot of cases where victims decide not to follow through with testifying against their attackers, merely because of their fear of being in the room with them. This seems to be particularly common in cases of sexual assault. Can’t they just not have the accused attacker not appear in court when the victim testifies?
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There is both the way the system, most notably of course US one, works (and defendent does need to be there for even just general fair trial) and when it comes to using eyewitnesses the actual victim is only one that truly matters and be worthwhile evidence without like camera footage and is sadly under certain crimes, rape, basically required to be done to have a chance of justice even if physical evidence is strong enough on its own to be only “witness” needed in criminal case that shouldn’t require a civilian accuser because a crime obviously occured.
So one part sometimes actually neccessary for fair trial or evidence and one part criminal system requiring reliving trauma in front of people to convict clearly guilty person.
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