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Jun. 21st, 2007 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingJudge bars witnesses and lawyers from using the words "rape", "sexual assault", and "victim", among others, from a rape trial.
The legal reasoning is that labelling the accuser a "victim" presumes that a crime has occured, and that calling the acts under discussion "rape" is a legal conclusion that the jury needs to make, not the witness - and, in both cases, this presumption is prejudicial to the defendant.
The legal reasoning is that labelling the accuser a "victim" presumes that a crime has occured, and that calling the acts under discussion "rape" is a legal conclusion that the jury needs to make, not the witness - and, in both cases, this presumption is prejudicial to the defendant.
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Date: 2007-06-21 10:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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