“Too Drunk to Remember, Not Too Drunk to Be Raped?……The verdict just reinforces the ugly truth about what women will face if they accuse a man of sexual assault, especially if they’re drunk and the man is a cop and he’ll conveniently claim that she was too wasted to remember anything or to be taken seriously.” Andy Ostroy, Huffington Post NY Continue reading: http://bit.ly/jY3PWD
Juror in NYC Rape Case Questions Handling of Evidence
Melinda Hernandez, a member of the jury that last week acquitted two New York City police officers of rape, is distressed by a process that she felt left her no choice but to vote not guilty. Justice, she says, was not served.
“As a feminist it really challenged my values to vote not guilty,” an emotionally spent Hernandez told Women’s eNews in an exclusive telephone interview on May 30.
In particular, she was concerned about the way forensic evidence–in a case concerning police as perpetrators–went through the New York Police Department lab and was then sent to New York Medical Examiners lab.
“I think they should have hired an independent person to collect the evidence,” Hernandez says. “There’s just common sense behind that.”
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