Are there any lawyers in this group? If so, maybe you can explain how the BC case of Christopher James Kruk results in a conviction. It happened a few years ago, but I just stumbled across information on the appeal, and then looked into the original trial. The information is all here, Supreme Court of Canada - SCC Case Information - Summary - 40095, although missing a lot of information because of the need to protect the accuser, but in a nutshell, a man living in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, goes out for a smoke one night and finds an incredibly intoxicated girl in need of assistance. He lends her his phone to call her mother, and offers to help get her home safely. He takes her back to his house, calls a cab, puts her in the cab, the cab then returns and drops the girl off because she is too intoxicated. He offers her water, pajamas, a place to sleep, helps her up the stairs because she is too drunk to walk. At some point, around 4 am, her father arrives at the house, knocks on the door of the house, and Christopher comes to the door wearing only a swimsuit (yes, I know, poor decision-making, but not a crime). The father demands to know where his daughter is, Christopher goes to get her, and she tells her dad she was raped.

Here's what I don't understand. I thought "beyond a reasonable doubt" existed in the Canadian legal system, and when I read this docket and the appeal documents, I couldn't understand how the word of a drunk woman so intoxicated she can't stand, and has long periods of memory loss from the night in question, is considered more reliable than a guy who had not been drinking. I mean, she was clearly incredibly drunk, probably quite embarrassed knowing her father and brother had to come get her at 4 am. I don't know how there can't be fairly significant doubt in terms of her reliability as a witness.

I'd liketo hear others thoughts on this. I don't know Christopher at all, but when I read this case, I wondered how the judge could convict Christopher based on the woman's testimony given how drunk she was. It seems to me that a man's rights have been completely ignored yet again in the hurry to placate women.