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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Who’s to say they’re a victim? Who’s to say they’re a victim and that the person they’re accusing is their attacker? Thats the whole point of a trial.
You can’t really say “it’s fucked up that person has to testify in front of their rapist” as if you know for a fact that the accused raped them or that they were even raped at all.
Also the 6th amendment ofc. You have a right to face your accuser.
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