When are these dolts going to learn?
It’s the prosecutions responsibility to prove something happened.
Making a claim, having absolutely no evidence, and relying solely on the jury to
“believe what I say happened” is not going to cut it.
Maybe he did get molested, maybe he didn’t. But unless you have some proof besides your memories of what happened, stop wasting everyone’s time.
Didja have to put that image in my head? Eeeeewwwwww.
The clock begins to run from the moment you discover the injury - not from when the injury happens. That’s how the “repressed memory” thing may come into play.
Bricker, are you aware of any cases where a repressed memory turned out to be demonstratably true? I don’t mean simply convincing a jury it was true, but good evidence was discovered that the memory was accurate?
I’m just asking from the top of your head, I’m not asking you to take the time to research it or anything.
According to Jackson’s attorney, they do have a statement from Willy. So yes, they asked WIlly himself. But, you have to wonder, can Willy Nelson really remember something that happened 20 something years ago? Better yet, can Willy remember what he smoked yesterday? 
Repressed memories are apparently an accepted phenomenon. At least consciously repressed memories are. Recovered memories are a wholly different story though. Lots of good information at Skpedic.com
http://www.skepdic.com/repressedmemory.html
http://www.skepdic.com/repress.html
http://www.skepdic.com/falsememory.html
And here’s an excellent CSICOP.org article by noted the research psychologist, Elizabeth Loftus:
http://www.csicop.org/si/9503/memory.html
Willie doesn’t remember being Willie. Hell, he keeps forgetting to plug the hole in his guitar.
I’m having trouble thinking of an action with less class.
Daniel
No, not “repressed” as such. I know of two cases in which prosecutions were permitted after the normal statute of limitations would have expired, under an injury/discovery of injury theory, and which developed solid extrinsic evidence of abuse - photos, in one case, and the DNA test of the child conceived as the result of the incest, in another case. But neither were classic “I never knew this happened until my therapist helped me discover…”
Neither of those went to trial. In both, dad/step-dad decided not to roll dice with a jury. Since the pleas waived all defects, the SoL problem was never tested at the appellate level.
Yeah, well 20 years ago, I was molested by Michael Jackson, Ronald Reagan and Willie Nelson, simultaneously! This thread is helping me to remember…
Ka-ching!
Channelling … channelling … channelling …
NO! I WAS MOLESTED BY SHIRLEY MACLAINE 300 years ago…when she was Miachale Jackson five years from now in a parallel dimension! Now, I know that’s hard to believe, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true! I was also Sampiro at the time.
-Rings the bell- You have without a doubt stated this most succinctly with the most class to boot.
Take an extra condom from the fishbowl on your way out, and thank you for playing Name That Pervert !!
Cartooniverse
I thought the thread title was “Jackson Accursed Again.”
Of course… now I remember, they were together when Jackson nabbed me too! I couldn’t put a face to Reagan, but I knew that ‘that fellow with the bad breath and the beard there is Willie Nelson’.
And if I’m not mistaken Johnny Carson (of the $400 million estate he’s too dead to protect fame) was there. I’d thought I’d dreamt it, but it wasn’t a dream! It was a place! And you - and you - and you - and you were there. But you couldn’t have been, could you?
Why the choice? It looks to me like the plaintiff with the repressed memory & his attorney are both idiots - and are both out to make a buck. Bahrain’g passage of a tort reform package that includes a loser pays provision, this bullshit will continue ad infinitum.
With the cash I’d be spendin’
I’d buy everything they’re vendin’
If I only had a multimillion-dollar nuisance settlement.
Let’s see. Reagan is deader than a doornail (MHRIP), Teflon Jacko is broke, and celebrities keep throwing charity fundraisers to keep Willie out of debtor’s prison.
You may want to keep your day job.
Me? I was molested by Bill Gates.
Memory clearing… sweet Jose, that WAS Bill Gates wearing that Reagan mask!
Wait…it’s all coming back to me…I was molested by Bill Gates, Donald Trump AND Martha Stewart!
Oh! Me too! Yeah, I’m just beginning to remember…
