No shit. Just because she maybe a little bit of a sex freak, he shouldn’t be able to get away with assault and battery. Which clearly happened.
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He hasn’t gotten away with anything yet.
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I sure hope not.
Exactly. She lost, but he did not win. There are burden of proof and other requirements for an injunction which her evidence must not have satisfied.
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There’s a pic with the tweet, but you really don’t need it.
You have more faith in the system than I do.
It is not “a system.” Every lawyer everywhere is bound by the rules of our jurisprudence. You have worked with lawyers all your career, and I know you know this. I did not see the evidence, and neither do you. I will not say a judge is corrupt with evidence that he or she is.
Maybe her facts were bad and did not support her allegations. Maybe she was not a credible witness. Maybe she did a poor job testifying. Maybe her lawyer did a poor job presenting her evidence. I do not know the legal reason for denying the injunction, but I do know that denial is not the end for her civil suit against him and certainly is not the end for the criminal investigation of his relationships with women.
As I said, you have more faith than I do.
Could be. I definitely believe in the rule of law and in evidence, not allegations.
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Carter has a whole Springsteen look going on there.
Looking at it from the outside and skimming reports, it seems the judge based her decision that there was no credible threat of future harm because Bauer is only violent during sex and hasn’t recently threatened or contacted the victim. Which, okay. That’s a basis for denying a restraining order.
But it seems odd that the judge went above and beyond that finding to describe the past encounters: “If she set limits and he exceeded them, this case would be clear. But he did not exceed limits she set.” Which seems unnecessary and frankly demeaning to the victim’s experience. It’s kind of hard for an unconscious person to set limits against being punched and sodomized, which apparently was the unrebutted evidence. The judge of course makes credibility decisions all the time, which is her prerogative. She’s in the courtroom, and neither I nor much of the reporting I’ve read was. But that comment is getting a lot of play and it seems weird to me.
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Since they last won on Aug. 2, the Orioles have been outscored 141-42.
The worst team since the 19th century…yikes!
Also, 1890 sucked for Pennsylvania baseball.
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How many games did they lose to start a season…26 or so?
I’ve never heard of the Innocents.
Buncha dirty bastards.
The Houston Babies, on the other hand, were innocent as could be.
The Orioles kicked off the '88 season with a 21-game losing streak.
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It’s not the worst as the title suggests, but it is bad.
Maybe if the catcher wasn’t set up 3 fucking feet outside that wouldn’t have happened.
It’s a bad call, but what the fuck is he doing in the other batter’s box?
Maybe Javy Lopez coaches him
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