[wtc911]

What a ridiculous idea. In our system of innocent until proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt" a significant number of criminals skate at trial due to lack of evidence, contaminated evidence, prosecutorial ineptitude, lack of witnesses or non-credible witnesses, ill-advised jurors, the ability of some accused to out spend the prosecution, etc...

That's the system. It often leaves legitimate victims feeling twice raped. You two want them to go to jail for it...what nonsense.

[Phantom Lord]

What a ridiculous idea. In our system of innocent until proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt" a significant number of criminals skate at trial due to lack of evidence, contaminated evidence, prosecutorial ineptitude, lack of witnesses or non-credible witnesses, ill-advised jurors, the ability of some accused to out spend the prosecution, etc... That's the system. It often leaves legitimate victims feeling twice raped. You two want them to go to jail for it...what nonsense.

I do not know how much clearer I can make this. It is pretty simple. If someone KNOWINGLY files a FALSE accusation and it is proven so, then that person serves the time the wrongly accused would have if convicted.

There is a HUGE difference between knowingly filing a false accusation and a person being aquited by a jury. To compare the two is worse than apples and oranges.

[Henrietta]

"What a ridiculous idea."

Sending people to jail for false reporting is an idea whose time has come. We aren't talking about sending the "he said, she said" reporters to jail. We're talking about sending those women who falsely report crimes for profit (like the one in the article, who forced the poor guy to spend thousands of dollars defending himself, after she accused him of raping her in a city which he had never visited.). But I suspect you realize that.

False reporting is a CRIME, and it's hurts peoples' reputations. I think it should be as zealously prosecuted as rape is.

You seem to think that some crimes (rape) are worthy of prosecution, and others (false reporting) are not. The only person who seems to have a ridiculous, nonsensical, and twisted idea of our justice system is YOU, my friend.