The high court observation came in an appeal by an accused against a 2010 trial court order sentencing him to 10 years for several offences, including rape. He was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2008.
trump came along. i mean, how deeply disturbing and offensive is it that you have republicans running around willing to now throw out the american jury system, because it doesn t line up with what donald trump wants it to be. yeah, you know, it takes me back. i spent several years as a young lawyer in the courtroom, prosecuting almost entirely sexual assault cases. and this is a case in terms of dynamics that i m very, very familiar with. because what you have here in our american judicial system is a place where people go, prosecutors go and present facts to a jury that has been selected after a screening process, and keep in mind, this particular jury of six men and three women had to answer a lot of questions about who they were, where they got their information. in fact, some of them that were on the jury were following
might have agreed with brian if this was like 1990, but beginning in the mid 1990s, in sexual assault and molestation cases, the federal rules were expanded to make it easier to get what is known as propensity evidence in to cases involving claims of sexual assault. normally we have a rule in the law that says we don t want to have somebody get convicted or found liable for the thing they re charged with on the base of other similar things that they have done in the past. that rule pretty that presumption holds most of the time across the board, but it doesn t apply anymore in sexual assault cases. they made it much easier to get that kind of proof in. i don t think the court of appeals could reject it without basically closing s eyes to what the rules of evidence say. neil: andy, this is the
yes, and at any moment, we are awaiting this verdict, and obviously a huge case, and one of the many legal challenges that the former president is facing, and perhaps on the most personal of the many women that have accused him of sexual assault, and this going to court, and not a criminal case, but nonetheless, potentially accountability of the many accusations he has had against him. certainly will be, and what we find out, it could be critical. yes. and i want to bring in jean casarez to join us. jean, as we are awaiting what the jury is going to determine here if the former president is liable or not in this civil case. what are you looking for, and are you surprised how quickly this jury has come to a verdict? it has come back very quickly, and i have covered sod many sexual assault cases for cnn from harvey weinstein to bill cosby and two cases, and also in that exact courtroom