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...that included Graham and told police, "He's not in there." Many defense lawyers maintain that a single eyewitness's testimony should not be enough to convict on a capital charge: Several lawyers called on to pontificate over Graham's fate brought up the recent case of a rape victim who positively identified her attacker and was absolutely sure of his identity. The alleged rapist was sentenced to life in prison - and was later was exonerated using DNA evidence. This kind of miscarriage speaks to psychological difficulties inherent in eyewitness accounts; if you're involved in a case (either directly...
...other, even more unsettling possibility is that the police simply don't take sex crimes very seriously - a postulation backed by many activists, who report trying to introduce sex crime education into the NYPD curriculum for years. All those unsuccessful attempts have left the city's victim advocates frustrated, and more than a little bit apprehensive about the current force, who have never been trained to deal with sex crimes, and who don't even track sexual assault as a "real" crime...
...find an aspect of the show they don't like. And it might get nasty - after all, if the show's got a cool million to hand out to the last sap left on the island, they can certainly scrape together a handsome out-of-court settlement for some "victim" with restitution on his or her mind. (Too bad they kicked that nice lawyer off the show...
...usual mountains of garbage left behind after these celebrations, the tabloids added headlines like "VICTIM RELIVES SEX-ASSAULT HORROR IN CENTRAL PARK...
...pinstruck.com where you can send an online voodoo curse to the annoying guy across the hall--if you dare. Messages range from "It's not over yet" to "I love you" and arrive in e-mail form along with Web links to voodoo dolls customized to resemble each victim type. If passive-aggressive is more your style, read hundreds of at-work horror stories or post your own at dumbboss.com...