however, in these kinds of cases, where someone is drunk/drugged....all too common....there has to be a slightly lower burden of proof, at least to bring it before a jury to decide....
just because you're drinking you shouldn't give up all your rights, or just because someone slips you a drug...which I suspect in the FSU qb's case.....you don't give permission to be raped....
Winston’ accuser described her attacker as being between 5’9” and 5’11”. Winston is 6’4”.
“...which I suspect in the FSU qb’s case.”
“Meggs emphasized that he did not need the accuser’s cooperation to go forward with an assault charge “if we have a case we’re going to pursue it” — but in this case there wasn’t enough evidence for him to succeed.
Among the problems, he said, were memory lapses but she was not intoxicated and there was no evidence of drugs in her system. “Her recall of the events of that night have been moving around a good bit,’’ he said.”