You know, some of us are of the belief that we do not know if Kane is guilty or not and that we do not know if the woman making the accusation is a victim or a victimizer. Some of us are not willing to presume knowledge of who is telling the truth and accept that some of those who are guilty need to be let go free and treated as if never accused in order to prevent the greater harm of falsely punishing those who are not guilty.
But we can all agree that dalej42 is a despicable waste of protoplasm. Dang this is either one devoted troll or one sick fucker … or both. Nice when someone brings people together like this! A uniter he is!
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This is absolutely inappropriate, and you should damn well know it. I’m giving you a warning, here. Do it again, and the next one won’t just be a warning.
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The bit with the rape kit is really odd though and I do wonder how it will shake out.
The lawyer faking it and lying? Doubtful as he’d know the evidence will be checked out.
The real kit sent to intimidate? The real kit having been tampered with sent by someone intending to whistleblow? And the police department lying that they having the actual real kit?
My guess is that someone of dalej42’s ilk, who works at the hospital, is playing a sick prank. If so I hope they are busted and punished to whatever is the maximum allowable by the law.
You haven’t seen any of sweat209’s “health question” threads (often about weak bones and joints) then have you? Amazingly posters who can post with normal spelling and grammar suddenly lose that ability when trolling.
I watched the entire press conference. It’s about 15 minutes long. The lawyer said they received the envelope the rape kit came in. Not the rape kit itself. So both could be telling the truth. I know our usual procedures are that the rape kit is done by the nurse. It is contained in a box which she seals up. That box is then placed in an evidence bag. The evidence bag itself does not contain evidence. Later when the rape kit is examined the evidence envelope is opened and can not be reused since the rape kit itself is sealed there is no evidence in the envelope itself. It should be discarded. It is more than troubling that the envelopes were brought to the home of the victim. I don’t know to what purpose. I’m sure there are some pissed off prosecutors and police supervisors trying to find out who made them look bad. But that does not necessarily mean that the chain of evidence was broken or that evidence was tampered with. Even if the evidence was not tampered with it could be used by the defense argue reasonable doubt.
Would it not be prudent to keep the opened envelope with the rest of the evidence box instead of discarding it to prevent precisely this kind of situation?
I can’t know for sure but if it was something that temporarily held the rape kit and was replaced with another envelope it would not. The rape kit is sealed and as long as the kit is accounted for at all stages the chain is not broken. The way this happened would most likely be allowed to be brought out in court by the defense to bring into question how the evidence was handled.
Not an unreasonable thought. It depends on exactly what it contains and their normal procedures. These are all just educated guesses on my part. It could be that there was a horrifically bad blunder instead of a minor one that looks horrible.
The perverse thing here, though, is that it’s a party allied to the prosecution–that is, the accuser’s lawyer–who has called the evidence into question.
It’s difficult to imagine how anybody associated with this case thought that their side would benefit by sending an empty envelope to the accuser’s mother.
As an officer of the court I don’t think he had a choice. By calling a press conference he could at least control how the information was presented and also to criticize the prosecution for the horrible leaks coming out about the case.