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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A problem I have is that we are “allowed” to debate guilt versus innocence of so many convicted criminals. I noted Adnan from Serial before. He was convicted of a gruesome murder, and there was plenty of evidence he did it. And nobody seems bothered by anyone debating the merits of the evidence, case, and trial. Nobody is canceling Sarah Koenig.

Yet here, and in cases of rape, nobody is allowed to question anything. He is guilty. The trial was perfect. His friends may not question that, and they themselves should be subject to a brutal rape (?).

The reason is that rape victims have been ignored, silenced, and blamed for so long. And  that’s a problem. What the correction to this problem is not “believe all women” and “never question anything.” It’s the opposite side of the same problematic coin. We have to be open to people and grey areas and the reality that the criminal Justice system is flawed and people are flawed. [/quote]

Well first of all, Sarah Koenig did an in-depth, YEARS long investigation into Adnan's case where she also publicly published all of her findings. It was also a fundamentally different case from what we are talking about here, the most notable difference being that the victim in that case is dead and could not come forward and explain what happened to her. So Koenig's efforts were not only on Adnan Syed's behalf but ALSO on behalf of Hae Min Lee and her family.

But in THIS case, the victims are alive and telling their stories, as they have for nearly two decades. When you come along "just asking questions," you are directly contradicting not only what these women have said, consistently, for years about their own experiences, but you are dismissing the fact that they sat in a court of law and told those stories, and a jury of 12 people believed them.

Masterson was sentenced 100% within the guidelines for the crimes for which he was convicted. He was convicted of two counts of forced rape, each of which carry a sentence of 15 years to life. This is a longer sentence than it might be for other instances of rape, but in Masterson's case there are several factors present that subject him to the longer sentence: evidence the women were drugged against their will, the violence used in raping them, threats of bodily harm including threats involving a deadly weapon, etc.

Now, there are mitigating factors that might lessen a sentence for this crime. They include: acknowledging your wrong doing or making restitution to the victim. Danny continues to maintain his innocence and, not only that, has repeatedly smeared these women in the press and engaged in harassment, including of one of the victim's children.

So when you say "well 30 years seems like a long time," I must believe you are simply ignorant of the case and the law, because there is nothing unusually sever or onerous about this sentence, and Masterson himself could have done things to reduce it.

I am not interested in any mush-mouthed complaints about "gray areas" and how "everyone is flawed." Sure. Everyone is flawed and there are gray areas in life. But Masterson's violent rape of two women is not a gray area, and most of us are flawed in ways that don't result in either rape or the defense of rapists. Some things actually are very clear, and this is one of them.[/quote]
Beautifully said, thank you.[/quote]

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