Posted on 09/26/2018 7:12:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Go to a hundred judges, and I suspect that 99 of them will tell you the statements are of no value. If this had occurred a year or two after the event....maybe they would have value. But in this case...no.
What is on display right now is the left’s ardent want to usurp the rule of law and millenia of legal precedent (e.g. presumption of innocence) in lieu of some sick, mob rule mentality that should be taken serious at any cost.
Americans should be tingling with concern about all of this. If the left gets their way, American law becomes no different than what Spain saw during the inquisition.
According to USA TODAY:
Fords attorneys present declarations from Fords husband, Russell, and three friends who support the California college professors accusation that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her and attempted to pull off her clothes while both were high school students in 1982.
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In her declaration, Adela Gildo-Mazzon said Ford told her about the alleged assault during a June 2013 meal at a restaurant in Mountain View, California, and contacted Fords attorneys on Sept. 16 to tell them Ford had confided in her five years ago.
In another declaration, Keith Koegler said Ford revealed the alleged assault to him in 2016, when the two parents were watching their children play in a public place and discussing the light sentencing of Stanford University student Brock Turner.
In another declaration, Rebecca White, a neighbor and friend of more than six years, said Ford revealed the alleged assault against her in 2017.
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OK, here’s my take...
THAT’s NOT CORROBORATION.
Its evidence that she TALKED ABOUT the allegations, but more than THREE DECADES LATER.
Actual corroboration would be much more CONTEMPORANEOUS.
But still, it would tend to establish that this didnt come up recently through a memory-recall session with Democratic activists.
Seems TIME doesn’t know what corroborate means.
Funny how these statements appear now, and not when Ford first sent her letter a few months ago.
Great job RNC.
This doesn't corroborate anything!!!! No one but her has seen the assault!!!!!
I read this as someone that heard nothing but hearsay. Was he a witness? This should not be admissible.
I’ve read those are declarations, not affidavits.
And apparently there IS a difference.
Third party hear say wont cut it.
I’m a woman. I just don’t get someone all of a sudden, after 30 years, getting all upset about a short groping attack 30 years before. Allegedly.
I could see talking about it, but being upset and shaken about it?
Aren’t there rumors she had an affair? Is this someone upset sexually?
She’s a liar. Her friends (democrat wackos) are liars.
Brett Kavanaugh, Ford responded by email, according to Koegler, her sons baseball team coach.
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Bizarre. Why would she be discussing this with her son’s baseball coach?
When did she tell him
what a misleading headline
I’m a billionaire!! and since I told two of my friends back in 2012 I’m a billionaire it proves it
Christines parents are the only ones who could truly shed some light on this. You will not hear boo from them, and for good reason.
Epstein did his homework, but he lost it.
Signed,
Epstein’s mom.
I’d like to know what physical injuries she had from an attempted rape.
These are very DEFENSIVE statements for Ford. They do nothing to corroborate her allegation, and their only (weak) value to Ford is to help her refute any argument that she fabricated the story in 2018.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
This is Time. If it was substantial, they'd lead with the word BOMBSHELL or something like that.
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