Friday, July 1, 2011

Presumed guilty if she isn’t innocent?

The New Yorker's Judith Thurman: "It will now be very difficult, if not impossible, to put this woman on a witness stand. And it may well be that a gross injustice to Strauss-Kahn has been perpetrated. But, as it stands now, the moral of this murky story is that bad things happen to all kinds of people. He was convicted by public opinion on the basis of his prior sexual history as a roué. She is now being convicted on the basis of her 'inconsistencies.' But I find it depressing that, in 2011, a woman is presumed guilty if she isn’t innocent."

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