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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Because laws should be consistent in all cases, they can’t just make assumptions before the trial is even done. What if the attacker was being wrongly accused? How are they supposed to respond if they can’t even so much as listen to the accusations against them? If the law gave blanket permission to remove the accused from the room while people testified against them, it would be far too easy to sway results against them. Innocent until proven guilty.
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