The statistic I have read is that about 40 to 50 percent of rape claims are false.
Where have you read that? That seems high.
according to a stat, 75 to 95 percent of rapes go unreported... so between that and the false claims, i wonder what the true numbers would be...
Back in my paralegal days we were hired on a rape case where the guy got 30 years. To this day I believe he is innocent. They had dated a few times. She was more interested in him than he was in her so he kind of moved on. They ran into each other one night in a bar, she invited him over. He gets to her house (he had been there many times) the front door is opened and the glass door is unlocked because she is expecting him. He enters, finds her in bed. They have sex. He will spend the next 30 years in prison. Revenge must be sweet after being dated and dumped.
And what we knew and the jury didn't because it was inadmissible, she had done this to another guy a few years earlier. He made some deal and didn't go to prison. That would have been the one piece of information that would have exonerated a very bright, handsome young man.