women's rights

WHAT rights?

i am making NO judgement about the defendant here. i don't know anything about his guilt or innocence. what i AM making a judgement about is how women are treated. LIKE SHITE. at a 'rape trial' the prosecution cannot use words such as rape, assault, victim and sexual assault kit??????????????

wtf??????

why was this allowed AND why is it going to be allowed to happen again since the first trial ended in a hung jury?
we are your mothers, sisters, wives, lovers, friends, aunts. don't forget that

don't EVER forget that

Judge Bans the Word 'Rape'...During a Rape Case.

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This post, written by Jessica Valenti, originally appeared on Feministing
It's not enough that rape survivors are re-victimized in the courtroom by having their sexual histories brought up or are accused of "wanting it." Now they can't even call their assaults, well...assaults.
From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate:
...a Nebraska district judge, Jeffre Cheuvront, suddenly finds himself in a war of words with attorneys on both sides of a sexual assault trial. More worrisome, he appears to be at war with language itself, and his paradoxical answer is to ban it: Last fall, Cheuvront granted a motion by defense attorneys barring the use of the words rape, sexual assault, victim, assailant, and sexual assault kit from the trial of Pamir Safi--accused of raping Tory Bowen in October 2004.
The first trial resulted in a hung jury last year, and in the retrial the words will once again be banned. The only word left to use by both the defense and the prosecution to describe what happened? Sex. Uh huh, that's lovely.............

............Even worse? Jurors won't be told about the banned words.
They are not merely too emotional to hear the phrase rape kit. They are also evidently too emotional to know it's been hidden from them in the first place.......


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