• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Am I reading this right that it’s because a civil decision by jury implies rape?

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      4 months ago

      Pretty much, except it may be more appropriate to replace “implies” with “determined there was sufficient evidence to conclude”

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        4 months ago

        Listen, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not trying to say I am.

        It’s widely understood that civil litigation is held to a lower level of scrutiny than criminal proceedings are.

        It’s widely accepted that jury trials are more prone to error than other types of hearings.

        The legal meaning of the word “implicit” in that sentence is something close to “we didn’t ask the jury about this, but something they did rule on could be interpreted as implying it”.

        I’m not making an excuse for trump or normalizing rape when I say the following:

        That is paper fucking thin.