Our thanks to Stu for this. An extract:
Prosecutor Robert Duvall said: “During some party games the defendant placed his hand on the lady’s knee.
“It was not momentary.
“It was there for a significant time and caused her embarrassment and awkwardness.”
Now we know the cost for a man of the ‘assault’ of drunkenly putting a hand on a woman’s knee for two or three minutes. Public humiliation and £300.00, £1.67 – £2.50 per second. It’s a wonder these rarified creatures are prepared to breathe the same air as degenerate sub-humans such as ourselves. The death penalty is barely sufficient to punish uninvited touches.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Such is the sort of idiot appointed to responsible positions. How can any man be so stupid in this day and age? We are now more than thirty years, perhaps more than forty or fifty, past the era in which such laddish frolics were excusable as nothing more than drunken high jinks. No man of any calibre can now be excused for being so crass. If he cannot think of his own safety and protect his career and reputation how can he possibly protect us?
There are few men who have not been groped or kissed inappropriately by some drunken or otherwise abandoned female (I had a very alarming near miss just before last Christmas that could have ended badly for me) but few of us who have are so stupid as to think we can do the same to them and get away with it as they do in the present social, political and legal climate.
This man only has himself to blame and I have no sympathy for him.
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“There are few men who have not been groped or kissed inappropriately by some drunken or otherwise abandoned female (I had a very alarming near miss just before last Christmas that could have ended badly for me) but few of us who have are so stupid as to think we can do the same to them and get away with it as they do in the present social, political and legal climate.”
Amen, I really don’t know what he was thinking. Frankly he is lucky they didn’t get him sexual assault. Naturally no woman would be held to the same standard, but as we all know, in our brave new world of equality, ‘all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’
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By this standard there isn’t anyone, of any sex – all thirty two of them – who isn’t guilty of “assault”.
And the end result would be universal guilt.
Ideal for universal prosecution, societal de-stabilseation, And Making Money.
What’s not to like?
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Is this a British example of plea bargaining where a charge which would be totally ruinous if prosecuted against him, let alone if found guilty, is used to coerce the defendant into pleading guilty to a lesser offence?
If the behaviour s reasonable in the context and the alleged victim makes no indication that she is uncomfortable or requests the cessation of the behaviour concerned how can it be assault. The definition is:
‘An assault is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly causes
another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force.’
I fail to see in the account of the incident intentionallity or recklessness.
Is there a pattern of complaints by the woman, did she receive compensation for her ‘assault’? The motivation for such a complaint under the circumstances is something I can’t understand. The decision by the authourities to pursue the case is still less comprhensible.
Much is made of the idea of anonymity for the accused as well as accuser isexual assault cases but what is really needed is publication of both names, to give the best possible chance that all relevant evidence is made available and to allow people to protect themselves against serial accusers.
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