Author Alice Sebold apologises to man wrongly jailed for raping her

Sorry just doesn't cut it in a case like this.

Sure they all look the same!!

He's going to end up a very rich man.

Good luck to him.

While this lady has lived a wonderful successful life, it's so unfair she should be saying sorry from behind bars but sure it was a man so who cares right, she didn't even pick him out of a line up ffs.

I doubt it. Unless she is very wealthy, then what is the point in taking a civil case. No matter what judgement he might get, you can't get blood from a stone.

Any a black man in a US court is unlikely to get a truly fair hearing. The USA is a corrupt, racist degenerate nation run by elderly white conservative men who want to keep it that way. And the judiciary are largely of that ilk too. The ruling class in the USA are more elderly and more homogenous than the old guard in the CPSU in the old USSR.

Did his defense not question the validity of her identification? Did he even get a trial or was he coerced into taking a plea as usual?

She wanted someone to pay for what was done to her. And I absolutely believe she was raped. But to say they were both victims I would completely disagree with.

One had their freedom, one did not. But the tragedy of a rape case (outside of the rape and the long term damage, be it physical or psychological) is that the body goes into this sort of 'protective' mode... and it means that it tries to block out the assault, as a coping mechanism.

This creates problems in that a survivor of assault can often fail to recall the appearance of their assaulter. It's why its so difficult for a victim to identify the perpetrator in a line-up. Its beyond their control-it's our body's coping mechanism.

In her case, where it was a random individual who attacked her (rather than someone known to her)... it makes identifying the individual all the more difficult.

That's just word salad. Most people who are not rich are going to get a lawyer who's overburdened, underpaid, and with a caseload that's stretched far beyond the norm.

So they'll tell a client (an innocent client) to 'plea to a lesser charge'. Maybe physical asssault. Doesn't matter how strenuously they say they're innocent.

There have been cases where women have contacted the men they sent to prison on social media, asking to friend them, then being like 'no hard feelings about me lying, okay?'.

Another claimed she saw her perpetrator in a dream. (DNA on the other hand, said the contrary).

In England, one man was accused of rape based on facebook messages. Yet they had actually been edited by the person accusing him. When one saw the full facebook conversation (stored as an archive on facebook, retrieved by a family member), this man's conviction was overturned.

He was apparently the only black person in the courtroom, in an article I read about it over the weekend.

Nah, she must be poor. Bestselling books that are adapted as movies don't generate much cash.

Doing well, by getting raped?

Tell me you have never been raped without telling me you have never been raped.

A young woman was raped. She thought she recognised her rapist. She told the police. They then built a case. The prosecutors argued that case. A man was wrongfully convicted. But apparently that is all the fault of a traumatised young woman and not the criminal investigation or legal system.

But let's trot out a few other cases from different countries to 'prove' what exactly? That there have been miscarriages of justice? Or that when they occur it is women's fault and not the system? The same system that in Ireland allows convicted rapists who have pled guilty to get off with a fine.

The fact is we do not know what pressure was put on Sebold to help get a conviction - "help us or he will rape someone else." in the days when a rape victim's sexual past and what they were wearing was considered fair game by defense lawyers is very likely. And if she had thought she had recognised a white man from a 'good' family her testimony would have most likely been discounted.

But this is all her fault now.

They are both victims.