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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2000185, member: 2651"]
thank you for injecting some much needed perspective into this thread.

There is a whole lot of stupid in this thread.  I particularly love it when people with no legal training but who apparently stayed at a Holiday Inn last night feel compelled to interpret the actions of prosecutors and standards of evidence.

Sexual assault cases are notoriously hard to prove.  I prosecute child abuse cases (non criminal) and have a preponderance standard, and even that is a challenge.  You have victims who are often impaired, reluctant witnesses because of how grueling and dehumanizing it is to subject oneself to all the victim shaming (especially when going up against athletes from the local D1 football team), and many links in the chain that are necessary in proving each and every element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.  It is not shocking in the least that prosecutor's office declined to press charges.  The prosecutor has limited resources and has a responsibility to responsibly use those resources.  However - and I simply cannot emphasize this enough - declining to pursue a criminal case IN NO WAY, SHAPE, or FORM is the same as exonerating the accused.  It is an assault to logic and reason to claim that the prosecutor thinks no crime was committed.  If that were the case, the prosecutor would say so.  The only thing one can conclude from the failure to pursue charges is that the prosecutor does not think there is enough admissible evidence such that it would be a worthwhile investment of office resources to pursue a conviction in this case.
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