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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Most people believe Justin, not Blake.[/b] Plantation Princess will be desperate to be exonerated, I actually think she wants this to go to trial.[/quote]

I am not sure this is the case. I think it might be true among die hard followers who are watching every court filing, but my impression of talking to people outside of that group is that the vast majority of people either (1) do not really care either way, assume both sides are sort of ridiculous, or (2) are like "Baldoni who?" and are inclined to assume there is at least some truth to the allegations against him.

Like I don't think there are an army of Lively stans waiting to defend her at every turn, but most people don't really know or care who Baldoni is and certainly don't care enough about him to take his side in this case. Also mainstream media has definitely skewed toward Blake in the way they've reported on the case (which is sparingly) and people are heavily influenced by those headlines, as most people don't bother to read the underlying stories. I've had numerous people say to me this week, "oh is that whole thing over now? Blake Lively won?" Because the mainstream press widely reported on the judge finalizing the dismissal of Baldoni's case.

I truly don't know if it will settle or go to trial. Normally it's in everyone's best interests to settle. But I think both sides see a benefit in going to trial *if* their narrative can prevail and get covered widely in the press. Which is a gamble because it's hard to guess how a trial would be covered. Also, importantly, unlike the Heard/Depp trial, there will be a lot more criticism of social media PR and anything that smells like a bot army, which will somewhat force the sides to play it straight and just see how people receive it. There also will not be any video of the trial itself, so it will depend on people reporting from the court room... it's very tricky. I think trial is a risk for both sides but also there is this element of "nothing left to lose" on both sides too because they've come this far.

Statistically, it will settle. But I don't know that this one goes by the statistics. [/quote]

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