Ex-county prosecutor says prosecutor bowed to pressure from victim's groups and charged a student with sexual assault just "to send a message"

Ma99ie · 2012-08-09T15:09:57+00:00

Holy mutha f*cking shit. This shows how corrupt the "abuse" industry is. It is filled with a bunch of corrupt liars

TheDongerNeedsFood · 2012-08-09T16:38:34+00:00

The day that "Victim's Groups" begin pressuring prosecutors to charge people just to "send a message", is the day that they are no longer victims.

Leucopterus · 2012-08-09T15:26:41+00:00

Fucking hell.

That's disgusting. This prosecutor willfully ruined a young person's life. What a piece of garbage. This brings my piss to a boil. The fact that she can be so cavalier after accusing someone of rape - the worst thing you can accuse a man off - makes me angry beyond belief.

She sent text messages to a friend three days later, according to defense attorneys, in which she describes Johnson's likely reaction to rape allegations: "It will hit him like a ton of bricks which I'm okay with... I don't think he did anything wrong to be honest... he didn't show any remorse or anything."

My vocabulary is failing me.

Lohengren · 2012-08-09T19:26:21+00:00

anytime I wanna get angry about something I come to this subreddit.

Never fucking fails

TheGentlemanZombie · 2012-08-09T16:58:20+00:00

These people don't want justice, they did this out of pure spite.

Skippydero · 2012-08-09T15:28:35+00:00

This is seriously not cool. Get your shit together america. This can not be happening. It sickens me that people are sent to jail just to "Send a message"

Torvaldr · 2012-08-09T15:25:32+00:00

not okay.

2012-08-09T20:20:20+00:00

A war against men. Specifically, the "Dear Colleague" letter is being used to force men out of the post-secondary education system and to discourage them from trying to get an education beyond high school.

lethalweapon100 · 2012-08-09T15:59:53+00:00

Can we start a petition of some sort for his freedom???

And I wonder what the feminists are saying about this

CMOS222 · 2012-08-09T15:47:01+00:00

"The charges against Johnson came as the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the handling of more than 80 reported rapes in Missoula, many of them not related to the campus, during the past three years. The investigation is tied to complaints by unnamed sources that authorities were failing to aggressively investigate sexual assault claims.

That probe and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education is set to examine how officials at the 15,600-student campus in western Montana responded to at least 11 student-related sexual assaults reported there since 2010."

I am not sure why, but I get the feeling that the basic problem here is an incompetent prosecution system. Assuming for the sake of argument that, as reported, the prosecutors failed to prosecute a number of genuine sexual assault cases, then panicked and went overboard to "send a message", it sounds like there is a lack of basic competence at work.

On the other hand, it's also possible the prosecution office was right to dismiss those cases, but as a result of an angry, biased backlash, they've caved in and are now doing what's convenient rather than what's right. I wonder what's really going on here.

woofoo · 2012-08-09T15:55:27+00:00

What? The state is failing at doing what it's supposed to do, again?

Why is anyone surprised?

Title	Ex-county prosecutor says prosecutor bowed to pressure from victim's groups and charged a student with sexual assault just "to send a message"
Author	PierceHarlan
Upvotes	301
Comments	48
Date	August 9, 2012 1:01 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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