AZGrizFan said:
How about because she admitted as much? :lol: :lol:
And this is the tragedy of how public officials, stampeded by popular opinion, abidicate their sworn duties by prosecuting cases that should never have been prosecuted and yet, the power of the social justice "Narrative" continues to work overtime to compel rampant injustice, using the justice system.
Rolling Stone, the NY Times, The Missoulian, and Krakauer all see where the money and awards come from, and its not by standing up, Atticus Finch-style, to the zeitgeist of the self-assured lynch mobs seeking social justice entirely at the sacrifice of individual justice.
The JJ case was over when the Accuser completed her testimony. She was on record at that point as vindictive. There was something to be said for being seen as the girlfriend of the star quarterback, but she knew at the end of the evening, she wasn't it. She was on record as being disbelieved by virtually everyone that knew her well. She had communicated in writing that it may well have been that she wanted the encounter with JJ, that she may have made up the allegations out of frustration at the lack of a relationship. She had written that "he didn't do anything wrong" and that the fault lay with her for "sending mixed signals."
She had only decided to get a rape kit done a day later, and it was so important that she had it done on her way to her Super Bowl party. She had broken a date with her best male friend from grade school in order to have JJ over to her house, and had lied to the friend that she had homework to do. She admitted lying about several aspects of her original report, a report designed to elicit maximum emotional reaction from those she needed to support her claim. She had refused to cooperate on turning over key evidence, her comforter, because she wanted to keep it (!!). She attempted to create the scenario whereby JJ was a serial offender, a particularly vulgar and obnoxious attempt at character assassination and also potential financial reward, and then blamed an innocent third party for having told her that mendacious and completely false piece of information. She was willing to go that far to destroy someone.
"This will hit JJ like a ton of bricks," she gleefully confided to one friend, naturally raising the obvious question that, if so, it was likely because he was completely unaware that he had committed any such thing. She was quite smug in her communications to others that "UM will not have its starting quarterback next year," as though she was going to punish him for something she knew he did not know he had done, and which surely echoed to the Jury the same attitude of vengeance she expressed toward her own family when they, too, did not yield to what the Accuser demanded of them. Indeed, there was, in place of the depression that usually accompanies someone genuinely assaulted and violated, the spectacle of someone almost giddy over her personal power to ruin another life.
The problem with her testimony is how little of that information made it into the Missoulian's accounts of the trial, but how "perfect quotes" from friends of the Reporter did make it into the Missoulian reporting, attempting by generic "expert" testimony from a non-expert how such "rapes" occur as though it were a foregone conclusion that this one did. Presumably, Krakauer will take the same approach. But, we will see.