A friend of mine was prosecuted. The case involved a woman and he was accused to attempted murder. Sounds bad right?ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:All I know is that Erin claimed that the kind of thing that happened to Mark Pearson is regularly happening to men around the UK. It appears that the CPS has been instructed to achieve more convictions of men on sexual charges and the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, is a known whacko feminist. To those unfamiliar with the case, Pearson was woken up early one morning and taken in for questioning on a charge of sexual assault. It eventually transpire that a well known actress claimed to have been punched on the shoulder and groped upskirt in the middle of Waterloo station. The cops identified Pearson from CCTV footage that showed him passing by her on the station concourse for what must have been a half second. The CPS took him to trial even though there is no way on earth, short of his having the ability to control time, that he could be guilty. The CPS lost, but they still maintain that he could have done it. In other words, they're fucking batshit. Feminists who go on about how 'unsafe' they feel when a man is given due process on assault charges might like to consider what it would be like to have the full juggernaut power of the state brought to bear on them, have their lives and possibly career stripped from them, with all of the legal advantage (not to mention compensation from the state regardless of outcome) given to their accuser.VickyCaramel wrote: I would like to know what Erin Pizzey says about this because I have heard of the CPS pulling this kind of thing on a number of occasions, including to a friend of mine. I won't keep you in suspense, but I think sometimes the CPS game the system, and it might not be the person in the dock who they are gaming.
Unfortunately, without a constitution the CPS and government are the system. The courts may be impartial, but there are probably many more cases which go to trial without such obvious exonerating evidence and the perception of the jury that the CPS wouldn't have gone to trial without good reason may be putting a lot of innocent people behind bars.
Except he was attacked by her and her boyfriend and the witness was their employee, even though all three claimed they didn't know each other. It was absolutely obvious from the evidence that my friend was actually the victim. The court came to the right decision very quickly and it was a complete mystery to everyone involved how this ever got to court, there was absolutely no way they were ever going to win.
I don't know, maybe it is true they have been told they are not bringing enough cases to trial and to make up the shortfall, they have decided to bring cases where the plaintiff is obviously lying. If you are going to waste everybody's time with cases that aren't strong, you might as well waste time with cases like this where it is quickly dismissed and everyone can be in the pub by lunch time. In both these cases I am pretty confident justice was done and the right decision made. I am not hearing about many miscarriages of justice.