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Because blindly believing one person over another isn't justice - we had that and it resulted in Emmit Till, our race history makes solely victim testimony a very very very bad idea in a lot of places in this country. But even putting that aside, just choosing to believe one party over another because one of them called you up first is crazy.
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We also used to shit outside in holes, but then we made a better way. Appealing to victim testimonies historical weight is a poor argument for why it should be enough to convict.
Comment by multijoy at 26/12/2022 at 20:29 UTC
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Because blindly believing one person over another isn't justice
That's not what we're doing, though. The jury gets both sides of the story and it is up to them to decide whether or not the case is proven.
If you're not going to allow convictions solely on testimonial evidence then you are effectively decriminalising rape within a significant number of scenarios, not least marital rape.