In rape cases, 'no' means 'no' to everyone except the British public 4.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/20/nick-cohen-rape-jury-law

A young woman walks into a bar, drinks too much and carelessly shows the man next to her that she is carrying a wad of notes in her handbag. He mugs her on her way home and the police arrest him. The jurors mutter that she has no one to blame but herself, but they don't mean it. However much of an idiot they think she has been, they still know that a mugging is the responsibility of a mugger and the guilty man must pay.

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Created by Niluccio on 20 December 2009

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