What legal fees? This would be a contingent fee.
Hard to imagine a lawyer would take a case on a contingent fee basis unless the defendant was deep-pocketed enough to make that reasonable. Contingent fees are for people suing corporations and such.
Trust me, there are plenty of lawyers willing to sue even shallow pockets if it doesn’t involve much work.
Why wouldn’t it involve too much work? ISTM that this is exactly the type of thing which would typically involve quite a lot of work. A lot of witness and other evidence to work through.
One way to settle it: how many instances can you come up with of people suing false accusers (on a contingency or other basis)?
Took me exactly three seconds.
In that case the university is also being sued as part of that same lawsuit, and the expectation is presumably that the legal fees will be paid by the university’s share. But that would only work if there’s (also) a deep-pocketed defendant to sue.
Even at that, the case appears to be an exception, as noted in the article. “The Examiner has previously reviewed multiple lawsuits filed by Miltenberg on behalf of accused students, and has never seen one that includes a defamation claim against an accuser.”
Where does it say the attorney took the case on contingency? There’s a good chance that the falsely accused student came from a wealthy family because he was attending Brown University which costs $55,000 per year.
I’m pretty sure the first example is because many women recant because their boyfriend/husband is about to go to jail, and even though the accusation is most likely true, they don’t want boo to go away, and they are willing to stay with them even though they are being abused.
“whataboutism” eh? Because indeed, women have a harder time of it in this arena than men do, men never deserve justice?:rolleyes:
Or more likely, they know the system is actually shit for protecting them, and they will end up getting another beating in a week or three.
Why is it always rape (and, more rarely, domestic abuse) that excites misogynistic morons to be worried about false accusations, as opposed to murder or theft or arson or insurance fraud or violations of the sanitary code or burglary or possession of controlled substances or jaywalking or anything else? You rarely see these clowns complaining about false accusations of DUI, no matter how often they end up in jail for it. It’s because men can be convicted of rape and domestic abuse by the testimony of the woman they raped or abused, and they absolutely hate all that power draining away from the woman they sought to abuse. So they go to ground, again attacking their victim.
Plus, it’s pretty plain that recantations of these accusations are often part of the pattern that causes women to let their abusers off the hook, even at the cost of their own continued abuse.
Another theory: gender identification is incredibly important to people, especially for men: women are all the time asked to identify with the main protagonist of a story, but men rarely are–it’s the old “girls will read boy books but boys won’t read girl books” thing. Generally, when men hear a story involving a man and a woman, they identify with the man: they don’t mentally put themselves in the positon of a woman. At most, they can imagine that the unknown woman was their wife or daughter–not themselves. So when men hear about rape, they are predisposed to project themselves into the “accused rapist” role–and they know they wouldn’t rape a woman, so it seems at least plausible that it’s faked. So every rape story they hear, they wonder and worry about the truth in a way they don’t when one dude steals another dude’s car: in that case, they identify with the victim. That’s who they would be in that story.
I think this is human nature. I’m a teacher. When people bitch about some specific teacher, it takes an act of will for me not to make excuses or doubt the story, just because I identify with the teacher. I imagine all the ways people might misconstrue what I do, and I get defensive and angry even when the person in the story is clearly nothing like me.
I think the solution is for men not to identify by gender so strongly that they can’t “be” anyone else in the story. Women and minorities grow up with the tacit understanding that they have to shift into the white male view when consuming media. They know that outside certain specialist contexts, that’s the expectation. It’s a learnable skill.
I have a serious question that I’m uncomfortable asking, but I can’t not ask.
The situation was false recantation, not false accusation.
Was the OP unaware of the facts, or unaware of the difference between false accusation and false recantation, or just lying?
The first linked article was about a “Woman who falsely accused [a] 49ers player of domestic violence.” The second was about “a Grapevine woman who falsely claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a state trooper last weekend.” If I’m understanding them correctly, they are both about false accusations.
That was the headline used on the blaze, yes. The OP fell for the click-bait inflammatory and misleading headline from the blaze, and decided to share.
But, the actual situation is that there was enough evidence that she had been abused that the prosecutors felt that the racantation was what was false, not the initial accusation.
ETA: I am talking only about the first article. The second was that it never was a formal accusation, false or otherwise.
Yes, but, if I am understanding the article correctly (and admittedly it is somewhat confusing), it turned out that it was the accusation, and not the recantation, that was false in this particular instance.
QFT because I don’t this to be ignored.
Unfortunately misandrist vermin attacks anyone who shows empathy for a man wrongly accused of this crime. Every innocent person convicted of a crime deserves empathy and humans who show empathy do not need vermin’s permission to do so.
Very often a man can be convicted of a sexual assault on the accuser’s word alone. In other cases, most convictions are based on physical evidence.
Everyone who is falsely convicted suffers beyond imagination. Humans do feel empathy for innocent people who suffer.
Here is a much better overview of the entire situation. It certainly appears to me that Ennis (the woman in the 49er case) should face charges.