#16 – Luck Be a Ladd-y Tonight

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Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

He considered charging the accuser with a filing a false report but did not since Kane was never formerly charged and he worried about it's impact on victims coming forward.

The fuck? Didn't he also say:

On the "truth", he said they didn't have enough evidence to determine truth. The reporter asked him several times to say straight up if Kane was innocent and the furthest he would go was that the evidence they had was more consistent with innocence than with guilt.

So they don't have enough evidence to determine truth but he seriously considered prosecuting HER?

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

I would be completely shocked if he's telling the truth about considering charging the accuser. If he says he considered it, what he's saying essentially is "I'm making the right choice, and you should believe that I'm right". He considered it, ergo the evidence they have - which they're not sharing - is enough to exonerate Kane. Therefore, he's making the right choice in not prosecuting.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

Why the hell would you even say you were considering filing charges unless you were trying to save face? And if you're worried about the impact this case will have on victims coming forward, maybe you shouldn't mention that part, either, since you didn't actually file those charges. JFC, this whole thing is awful.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, he didn't say it straight up, like "Yeah, we thought about it but didn't because we're such good people!". He answered a direct question about it. Maybe watch the interview before you work yourself up in a righteous fury.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

"More consistent with innocence than with guilt" sounds like it is favor of Kane.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but actually, evidence that's in favor of one party over another is not at all remotely the same thing as evidence that someone has committed the crime of false reporting. This is legal system 101 stuff. Please google.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

Evidence like her DNA not being on the sheets is negative evidence, in that it's more consistent with innocence, but doesn't prove innocence, and is definitely not evidence of false reporting.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

absence! of evidence! is not! evidence! of absence!

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

It's impossible to prove a negative. Impossible. The way things get decided is that you prove something else happened.

The fool proof method of being absolved of one crime, as my law professor says, is being caught for another crime somewhere else.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

The fool proof method of being absolved of one crime, as my law professor says, is being caught for another crime somewhere else.

This immediately makes me think of BBC Sherlock and Angelo, who was acquitted of a double murder because he was robbing a house somewhere else.

Re: Patrick Kane will NOT be prosecuted

[(Anonymous)]

Not quite. If you watch the whole interview (which you should because a lot gets lost in translation when people just post summaries of it), the context he would frame that question of "What is the truth?" in every time, was that the DA's job isn't to determine truth -- it's narrower. It's to determine if there is enough evidence to support a claim. There's a distinction there, not just for this case, but for all cases, even ones with boatloads of proof. Because really, you can't know The Absolute Truth of any crime, unless you personally witnessed it.