When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.
Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?