Tag: TRIALS

Often, when a woman accuses a man of rape, there's little proof beyond he-said-she-said, and, in many cases, that's enough to put the man away, whether he's guilty or not. The onus definitely falls upon the accused to prove his innocence in most of these cases. In the recent case of Gary Taylor, a 41-year-old businessman, the defendant was able to prove his innocence, according to a report in the ...

Honest mistakes happen all the time. Take, for example, the British juror who posted the facts of the case she was helping to decide on Facebook so that her friends could help her decide which "way to go." You're probably thinking, "That's not an honest mistake, that's simple stupidity!" While stupidity obviously played some part in the debacle, the woman obviously mistook her solemn civic ...

Lord Ahmed, a Labour party member in the British House of Lords, will be prosecuted for causing a fatal accident last year, allegedly while texting, Textually.org notes. On Christmas of last year, Ahmed called paramedics on his cell phone shortly after the wreck in which the other driver died immediately. Authorities later discovered that a text message had been sent from that same cell ...