# Straus-Kahn case falling apart. Duke lacrosse, etc.?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straus-kahn-case-falling-apart-duke-lacrosse-etc/587476 "2011-07-01T03:54:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straus-kahn-case-falling-apart-duke-lacrosse-etc/587476/22 "2011-07-01T14:58:52Z")

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> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> Procedurally? I have no idea, I do not know enough about the system to comment. It just seems to my uneducated mind that the term “innocent until proven guilty” is effectively meaningless in cases like this. The minute the news networks paraded the headline “Strauss-Kahn arrested on rape charges”, that man suffered punishment for being a rapist, regardless of whether he did it or not.

Yes. This is a symptom of a huge \*systemic \*failure on the part of our nation’s law enforcement. We arrested a guy who was possibly the future leader of France because of some lying woman’s story. The people of France have every right to be pissed at us.

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